THE HOESE, DISEASES OF THE NASAL GLANDS, ETC. 29S 



To distinguish it from catarrh, for which also it is sometimes mistaken, 

 observe that feVer, loss of appetite, coughing, and sore throat all 

 accompany catarrh, whereas these symptoms are rarely if ever found 

 together in glanders. In catarrh, the horse quids his food, (drops it 

 from his mouth partially chewed), and gulps his water. The discharge 

 f I om the^ nose is profuse and sometimes mattery ; the glands under th© 

 jaiv, if swollen, are movable, while there is a thickening around them 

 and tho}'^ are hot and tender. 



What to do. — The first thing to do, and in the first stage, will naturally 

 Suggest itself to any one who has taken the pains to inform himself of 

 the dreadful nature of the disease. Its contagious character renders it 

 dangerous, as has been said, not only to all of the horse kind but to 

 man ; and no time should be lost in removing a glandered animal from 

 the possibility of communicating the disorder to another. If stabled, 

 there should be no connection whatever between his stall and those of 

 other animals, as the discharge from the nostril, (in which lies the 

 danger), may be communicated through any opening suflBcient to allow 

 horses to bite or nibble at each other. If placed to pasture, it should be 

 kno^\ai that no other horse is at all likely either to be turned in with him 

 or to approach the inclosure. And this removal or separation should 

 take place whenever it is observed that there is that constant discharge 

 from one nostril which has been described, even though it may seem but 

 watery and natural, and the horse be in the very best apparent condition. 

 Remember that a glandered condition may long exist, and minute ulcers^ 

 in the hidden recesses of the nose, discharge a sort of limpid or clear 

 fluid, without any of the active and violent symptoms being manifest ; 

 but that all this time the horse may be able to communicate the disease 

 to others ; and that these may die of it while he is yet in reasonably fair 

 condition. 



It can hardly escape the intelligent horse owner that every knows 

 €>ause of the disease should, if possible, be promptly removed. Close, 

 damp, dark stables, reeking with exhalations distilled from mingled dung, 

 urine, and rain water, ought at any rate to begin to receive a little 

 attention after the poor occupant has caught what is more than likely to 

 prove his death ; if he is jaded and exhausted by labor, no hope of cure 

 can be entertained unless he is promptly released from his toils and put 

 upon moderate and health-giving exercise only, with such generous diet 

 as will restore the wasted tissues ; if, on the contrary, he is pampered 

 and stimulated and grown unwholesomely plethoric for want of labor 

 proportioned to his good keeping, his food should be gradually changed, 

 and a regular course of moderately increasing exercise be instituted and 



