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satisfied is the cause of many horses taking this and other 

 diseases equally contagious. The symptoms of glanders 

 are a discharge of matter from one or both nostrils, but 

 more frequently from one only the left ; in some cases 

 a swelling may also be noticed in the cavity between 

 tli e jaws, consisting of one or two small lumps about 

 the size of chesnuts, and which, in time, suppurate and 

 discharge a greenish or yellow matter ; the horse will 

 also appear fidgetty and uneasy about the head. Al- 

 though this disease is contagious, and is caught by sound 

 horses from those which are diseased, yet it may be 

 generated by bad provender, close, unwholesome stables, 

 Budden changes from exposure to cold and wet weather 

 to hot stables, and from severe colds neglected from 

 time to time. I have known glanders brought about 

 by ignorant stablemen pinching the horse's nose. Far- 

 mers and others have a practice of catching a horse by 

 the nose when running at grass, previous to haltering 

 or bridling him ; this will sometimes bruise the cartilage 

 of the nose and cause ulceration, terminating in glanders. 

 I believe also that the disease is frequently communicated 

 by the clothing of grooms ; but this is mostly the case 

 when it is accompanied with farcy in the more advanced 

 stage, or acute glanders. I have seen horses covered 

 with ulcerations and farcy buds in coaching stables, the 

 grooms who attended to them using the same brushes 

 -md wisps for grooming them as for horses free from 

 disease, and the result was as may be readily con- 

 ceived. 



