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symptoms are, a discharge from one or bot-li 

 nostrils, and a swelling of the glands under the 

 throat. If one nostril only be affected, it gene- 

 rally happens that the swollen gland is on tli«. 

 same side of the throat. Sometimes the dis- 

 ease remains in this state for a considerable 

 time, at others the discharge increases, be- 

 comes of a greenish colour, and very fetid ^ 

 xdceration takes place within the nose,and the 

 swollen gland becomes harder, and feels as if 

 ci-osely attached to the jaw bone. 



A cold has sometimes been mistaken for the 

 glanders, bat may very easily be distinguished 

 from them. In colds, there is generally a certain 

 degree of fever, the eyes appear dull or wa- 

 tery, the appetite is diminished, and there is 

 almost always a cough. If the glands of the 

 throat should swell, they are not so closely- 

 attached to the jaw bone as in the glanders, 

 b^U feel loose and movable under the skin; 

 they are also generally in a state of active, 

 inftammation, feeling hot, and softer than in 

 the glanders. In colds, both nostrils are almost 

 always affected; in the glanders it frequently 

 hap])ens that the discharge is from one only. 

 In colds 1 have never seen the nostrils ulce- 

 rated: in glanders it always happens, though 



