156 DADD'S VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 



On a nsulting " Hippopathology," I find a paragraph, ciedited 

 to a French surgeon, who very accurately describes the symptoms 

 of glanders. It reads as follows : " The signs by which the disease 

 may be known are, when a horse, already too old to be troubled 

 with strangles, without a cough, voids matter by the nose, and 

 has a kernel sticking to the bone ; and, besides, in glanders the 

 matter usually flows from one nostril, whereas, in a cold, it runs 

 always out of both. Some cast the matter that is voided by the 

 nostrils into water, and, if it swim on the top, they conclude the 

 horse to be free of this distemper ; but if it sink to the bottom, it 

 is a sign of glanders, the principal use of this experiment being to 

 distinguish the pus. But you must not depend on the certainty 

 of this sign ; for if the matter stick to the nostrils, like glue, it is 

 a bad sign, and you may conclude the disease to be the glanders, 

 though the matter do swim on the top. When either the breath 

 or matter that comes out of the nostrils stinks, the disease is almost 

 always incurable. I have seen horses troubled with this distemper 

 without kernels, or, if there were any, they were small and move- 

 able; and the only sign by which we could discover it to be 

 glanders, was the glueyness of the matter discharged from the nasal 

 outlet." 



Treatment — The author knows of no remedy for the cure of 

 glanders. He considers it an incurable disease. In fact, most of 

 our educated veterinarians contend that the disease, like pulmo- 

 nary consumption, is incurable. 



Mayhew, one of the most intelligent veterinary teachers of the 

 present period, informs us that " no medicine can restore the parts 

 which disease has disorganized. There is no cure for glanders, 

 which is essentially an ulcerative disorder." And this opinion is 

 indorsed by others of equal eminence in the profession, who were 

 employed lately, by the members of an agricultural society in 

 England, to ascertain if there was any specific for the disease 

 knowi as glanders, and the verdict was that no specific could je 

 found. So soon as glanders is discovered in the horse, he should, 

 by all means, be destroyed, and buried deep in the earth. 



Farcy (Disease of the Absorbents). 



This disease is usually met with among horses of the scrofulous 

 diathesis, which diathesis is known by a proneness to diseases of 



