Avery's own farrier. 137 



Glanders is a local disease, in the first place, and 

 commences on the glands and membrane of the nose. 

 It is caused by neglected colds, catarrh, and many other 

 diseases, as well as by bad stable management and con- 

 tagion, which leaves a taint on this sensitive organ, and, 

 if not arrested in time either by art or nature, it soon 

 reaches the salivary glands, which causes them to harden 

 and swell. The horse may remain in this stage of the 

 disease, comparatively, for a considerable time, without 

 becoming materially affected in health or usefulness. 

 "Although he may have given it to great numbers of 

 others that have been hurried off to the shades before 

 him," unless some other exciting cause of disease sets 

 in with it, he may continue along indefinitely. Some 

 have attempted to dry up this superfluous discharge at 

 the nose, thinking that was all that was required to 

 effect a cure, or get them in a condition to trade off to 

 advantage. But they have been wofully disappointed. 

 To expect a cure, this discharge must be promoted in- 

 stead of trying to dry it up, and at the same time cleanse 

 and heal this membrane and glands, and restore them to 

 their office and original purity. '• It will be borne in 

 mind, that this discharge at the nose of the horse, 

 answers him the same purpose that spitting does with 

 the human species." 



Symptoms that characterize this disease in the first 

 stages thereof, are an increased discharge from the nose, 

 and from whatever cause it may arise, it must be re- 

 garded with suspicion. But when it continues for any 

 length of time, and is small in quantity and thin in 

 appearance, and the glands swell, and cleave or adhere 



