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lungs become implicated. A hollow cough bespeaks 

 the mischief which is going on within the chest. The 

 ulcers extend in the nose ; they become larger and 

 more numerous ; the membrane thickens ; the nostrils 

 and the whole of the external openings swell ; the air 

 passages are impeded; the horse is threatened with 

 suffocation ; and a grating noise attends every act of 

 inspiration. The discharge from the nose is in- 

 creased; blood mingles with it; it assumes various 

 colours ; scabs, or pieces of cartilage, or even of bone 

 are cast forth. Now it is that stench, which during 

 the early stages was almost absent, is powerful and 

 offensive. Symptoms of farcy appear. Ulcers break 

 out in various parts, and the animal at length dies 

 apparently from suffocation. 



This is the usual progress of the disease when it is 

 bred in the animal, or produced by bad stable manage- 

 ment; but there is another species of the malady, 

 termed, from the rapidity of its progress, the acute 

 glanders. When the disease is communicated by in- 

 oculation, its march is sometimes fearfully quick. 

 The disease is the same; but the peculiarity consists 

 in the violence of the symptoms, and the rapidity 

 with which they succeed to each other. 



Sometimes, after the disease has proceeded slowly 

 for many a month, the complaint all at once takes on 

 the acute form, and speedily destroys the animal. 



Glanders may thus be produced by various causes; 

 such as contagion ; exposure to a foul atmosphere ; hard 

 work ; high feeding, and by any thing which shall sti- 

 mulate, but undermine the constitution. 



The treatment of glanders is very unsatisfactory. 



