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GLANDERS AND FARCY (OR NOT) ? 
mucus from the nostrils. Next day the animal was down 
and unable to rise, and in forty-eight hours died, apparently 
suffocated. A second horse was dull, and off his appetite ; a 
number of small tumours showed themselves on different 
parts of the body; these remained about thirty hours, and 
then disappeared, and a sore choking cough commenced, 
followed shortly afterwards by perfect discharge of mucus 
from the nose. in forty-eight hours, with the mucus, there 
was mixed much matter of a highly offensive character; this 
horse died in four days, having the same symptoms as case 
the first. In a few days a third died under similar circum- 
stances. I was now called in to see the three remaining 
horses. Two of them had a number ot‘ small, hard, super- 
ficial tumours variously disposed over the body ; some of 
these tumours disappearing, others partially suppurating, 
discharging matter of a dark colour. The submaxillary 
lymphatic glands of one horse tumefied, from which a chain 
of small tumours crossed the jaw, and proceeded to the corner 
of the mouth ; appetite pretty good. In six days no trace 
of tumours remained. The animals are losing flesh sur- 
prisingly fast ; their appetites are pretty good ; two of them 
are affected with a sore choking cough ; there is profuse dis- 
charge from the nostrils, emitting a most horrible stench ; 
there is no tumefaction between the jaws and about the 
throat; but there is extreme hardness of the muscles about the 
neck and shoulders ; the legs of one horse are much swollen, 
and tender. To-day (March 20th) I again saw my patients 
(being a fortnight since my first visit). One animal was down, 
and unable to rise without assistance ; the hind extremities 
seemed partially paralysed, and a profuse discharge of a dirty 
white colour, mixed with blood, came from the nostrils ; the 
mucous membrane of the eyes was pale, the appetite bad ; the 
stench from the stable is most horrible ; twenty carcases in a 
high state of putrefaction could not be worse. The lives of 
these two horses will certainly not be prolonged more than two 
days ; one I thought would have died from suffocation in my 
presence. One horse now only remains to be described. 
Tumours, as before noticed, have shown themselves about 
him; there is profuse discharge from the nostrils, and sore 
choking cough, and extreme hardness of the muscles of the 
neck and shoulders; the appetite is good. Now, is this, or 
not, glanders ? The newly-purchased animal was pronounced 
glandered by a veterinary surgeon. Another veterinary 
surgeon, who attended the horse whilst in the possession 
of his former owner, says he was not glandered. Mr. S. 
has, I understand, given, as his opinion, that glanders cannot 
