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not only in conquering the disease, but in restoring the 

 health and strength in a short space of time. Although the 

 majority of cases were not dangerous, 3^et many of them 

 were so ; and it is notoriously the fact that a great number 

 of horses have died from the disease in various places." 



IV.— Glanders and Farcy. 



Volumes upon this horrible and fatal malady have been 

 written. Glanders consists in a discharge, from one or both 

 nostrils, of matter which by transfer or inoculation will 

 produce the disease in another animal, either of the equine 

 or human species. There is every reason to believe that 

 glanders and farcy are merely modifications of the same 

 disease ; or rather that farcy, in many cases, supervenes on 

 glanders. The seat of glanders is in that membrane with 

 which the respired air comes in contact, and which lines 

 the nose, the sinuses of the head, the windpipe, and its 

 branches. 



The diseases with which glanders is liable to be con- 

 founded, or for which it may be mistaken, are catarrh, nasal 

 gleet, and strangles. 



The signs of true glanders are with singular accuracy 

 described by old Solleysell in his " Com pleat Horseman." 

 No better diagnosis has been made since, with all our science. 

 He says : " 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 almost 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 alwaj^s incurable." — " I have 

 seen horses troubled with this distemper without kernels, 

 or, if there were any, they Vv^ere little and moveable ; and 



