156 DADD’S VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY, 
On ccnsulting “Hippopathology,” I find a paragraph, creditea 
tu a French surgeon, who very accurately describes the symptoms 
of glanders. It reads as follows: “The signs by which the disease 
may be known are, when a horse, already too old to be troubled 
with strangles, without a cough, voids matter by the nose, and 
has a kernel sticking to the bone; and, besides, in glanders the 
matter usually flows from one nostril, whereas, in a cold, it runs 
always out of both. Some cast the matter that is voided by the 
nostrils into water, and, if it swim on the top, they conclude the 
horse to be free of this distemper; but if it sink to the bottom, it 
is a sign of glanders, the principal use of this experiment being te 
distinguish the pus. But you must not depend on the certainty 
of this sign; for if the matter stick to the nostrils, like glue, it is 
a bad sign, and you may conclude the disease to be the glanders, 
though the matter do swim on the top. When either the breath 
or matter that comes out of the nostrils stinks, the disease is almost 
always incurable. I have seen horses troubled with this distemper 
without kernels, or, if there were any, they were small and move- 
able; and the only sign by which we could discover it to be 
glanders, was the glueyness of the matter discharged irom the nasa! 
outlet.” 
Treatment.—The author knows of no remedy for the cure of 
glanders. He considers it an incurable disease. In fact, most of 
our educated veterinarians contend that the disease, like pulmo- 
nary consumption, is incurable. 
MAYHEW, one of the most intelligent veterinary teachers of the 
present period, informs us that “no medicine can restore the parts 
which disease has disorganized. There is no cure for glanders, 
which is essentially an ulcerative disorder.” And this opinion is 
indorsed by others of equal eminence in the profession, who were 
employed lately, by the members of an agricultural society in 
England, to ascertain if there was any specific for the disease 
know: as glanders, and the verdict was that no specific could 3e 
found. So soon as glanders is discovered in the horse, he should 
by all means, he destroyed, and buried deep in the earth, 
Farcy (DIsEAsE OF THE ABSORBENTS). 
This disease is usually met with among horses of the scrofulous 
diathesis, which diathesis is known by a proneness to discanes of 
