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 head on account only of his great age. I 

 opened this horfe to fee the ftate of the vifcera 

 and found them all in a found ftate, as 

 well as the other internal parts, except the 

 pituitary membrane which was thickened by ul- 

 cers of four or five lines broad, as well in the 

 frontal as maxillary finufes. 



It is known that a horfe with the glanders 

 properly fo called can communicate the difeafe 

 to other horfes ; but this difeafe will alio be 

 catched from any caufe capable of inflaming the 

 pituitary membrane. For example, a horfe will 

 often become glandered, if after fwimming him 

 he is left in the cold, or his nofe expofed to the 

 wind -, for in two hours the glands under the jaws 

 will be fwelled, and the noftrils be filled with 

 a vifcid mucus. 



I have had horfes brought to me who had 

 catched cold thus in the pituitary membrane, 

 and could perceive by their glands they were 

 threatened with a confirmed glanders -, I bled and 

 cooled them, and cured them in a very little time. 



And I have lince obferved horfes thus affect- 

 ed in the glands from the fame caufe, for which 

 I propofed the fame treatment by way of pre- 

 vention, became abfolutely glandered for want 

 of thar care. 



In order to prevent thefe difeafes, when horfes 

 are hot, they muft not be let to grow cool 

 without action, and therefore they fhould be 

 walked gently after running, to hinder their fud- 



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