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This discharge, in cases of infection, may continue, and in so slight a degree as 

 to be scarcely perceptible, for many months, or even two or three years, unattended 

 by any other disease, even ulceration of the nostril, and yet the horse being decid- 

 edly glandered from the- beginning, and capable of propagating the malady. In 

 process of time, however, pus mingles with the discharge, and then another and a 

 characteristic symptom appears. Some of this is absorbed, and the. neighboring 

 glands become affected. If there is discharge from both nostrils, the glands within 

 the under jaw will be on both sides enlarged. If the discharge is from one nostril 

 only, the swelled gland will be on that side alone. Glanders, however, will fre- 

 quently exist at an early stage without these swelled glands, and some other diseases. 



Fig. 795.— A Bad Case ol Farcy. Photographed 

 From Life by Prof. Cressy. 



as catarrh, will ^produce them. Then we 

 must look out for some peculiarity about 

 these glands, and we shall readily find it. 

 The swelling may be at first somewhat large 

 and diffused, but the surrounding enlarge- 

 ment soon goes off, and one or two small 



distinct glands remain ; and they are not in the center of the channel, but adhere 

 closely to the jaw on the affected side. 



The membrane of the nose should now be examined, and will materially guide 

 our opinion. It will either be of a dark purplish, hue, or almost of a leaden color, 

 or of any shade between the two ; or if there is some of the redness of inflamma- 

 tion, it will have a purple tinge ; but there will never be the faint pink blush of . 

 health, or the intense and vivid red of usual inflammation. Spots of ulceration will 



Regardless of his advice, the mare was sold. Months afterward he found a number of horses 

 in a stable suffering from glanders, all having undoubtedly taken the disease from this mare, 

 she having been worked and stabled with them. A. large number of cases are referred to by 

 others, caused by being put 'into the stalls that had been occupied by horses showing the above 

 symptoms ; in one case one horse was the means of inoculating a whole troop of army horses, 

 making it necessary to destroy them all. So it is best to be on the safe side, by taking the 

 greatest possible precaution when a case is suspected. 



