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affected. His coat will stare and fall off; he will 

 lose flesh, and his belly will be tucked up ; cough 

 will follow ; the appetite will be much affected, ac- 

 companied by a rapid diminution of strength ; the 

 nodules will multiply ; discharge will be much more 

 abundant, and will assume a purulent and bloody 

 appearance, accompanied with a very foetid smell. 

 The ulceration may extend down the windpipe, and 

 the lungs will be in a very short time studded with 

 glanders nodules. A test of the lungs having become 

 affected, the breathing will be difficult, and a stifled, 

 grating noise accompanies it, which is a certain pre- 

 lude to death. 



A common catarrh has often been mistaken for 

 glanders ; but a little attention will soon enable any 

 one to perceive the distinction between those diseases. 

 Catarrh is invariably accompanied by fever, sore 

 throat, generally cough, loss of appetite, and a dis- 

 charge from both nostrils, and, in most cases, very 

 copious ; sometimes purulent ; the glands are gener- 

 ally swollen in both sides of the throat, are movable 

 and hot to the touch. The proper means being 

 adopted, all the symptoms are abated. Strangles 

 have also been mistaken for glanders. This disease 

 usually affects young horses only. At first they 

 resemble a common cold, with a severe cough and 

 wheezing, and accompanied with a considerable 

 thickening and swelling between the jawbones. The 

 swellinofs become harder towards the middle, and a 

 fluid can be felt in their centre, which ultimately 

 breaks, and a discharge flows from it. The mucous 

 membrane of the nostrils is of a vivid red colour ; and 

 an ample discharge continues, which is mixed with 

 pus from nearly the commencement. 



Cause. — Ill-ventilated and not properly drained 



