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my patient to a very clever professional man, he 

 said I had taken the right course. I learned 

 from him what I did not at that time know, 

 namely, that glanders is more virulent in mules 

 than horses, and more so with asses than mules ; 

 so, in my mule case, I may apply what was once 

 written by, or for, a doctor : — 



" Wbene'er my patients comes to T, 

 I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em ; 

 If, after that, they choose to die, 

 What's that to me — I Lets 'em." 



There is one accompaniment to glanders that 

 sometimes shows itself without the animal havinof 



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the slightest tendency to the disease, namely, dis- 

 charge from the nostrils. This discharge may 

 exist to very considerable extent, having a most 

 suspicious appearance, and foetid smell ; and many 

 a horse has from this been killed for glanders, 

 that was as clear of the disease as the person who 

 killed him. Blows on the nose will occasion this 

 discharge, or, indeed, any serious injury of the 

 nasal cartilage. However, this must not be trusted 

 to without the very best professional advice ; and 

 even then, if the opinion was ever so decidedly 

 favourable, though it might and would induce me 

 to keep a favourite horse under the prospect of 

 cure, I most decidedly would reject a horse with 

 such symptoms, however slight they might be, 

 unless perfectly certain of the cause. 



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