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and on this account a suffocative cough is frequently present. 
This form of disease may be produced by contagion, or may 
follow other diseases which have greatly wasted the system, 
and will sometimes run its course in so short a time as a 
week, ten days, or a fortnight. Chronic glanders may exist 
for many weeks without any ulceration being apparent : the 
matter is small in quantity, and it often comes from the left 
nostril only; the appetite is little affected, the condition but 
slightly impaired, and there may not be any cough. The 
disease may continue for months ; some say for years. We 
have known cases remain for six months without much 
change. When matter of a sticky quality, thin, and of a 
rather green hue, comes from the left nostril of a horse for 
weeks successively, it is always a suspicious circumstance. 
The animal should be carefully isolated from other horses. 
The farmer must not tamper in the way of doctoring, but a 
veterinary surgeon of great experience should be consulted. 
No cure for glanders is known. 
*** This latter (editorial) statement, intended as a para- 
phrase to the former or original account, would leave no 
doubt on the nature of the disease, could it be received. 
But the naked cases themselves, loosely and imperfectly 
narrated as they stand, admit of room for dispute as to the 
real or genuine species of disease they are intended to repre- 
sent. — Ed. 6 Vet.’ 
ANOTHER INSTITUTE IN THE SAME SQUARE ! ! ! 
You were very right, Mr. Editor, in objecting to the term 
Institute , as any one may see by reference to the case of the 
Belgian girl. Mr. Parry, in court, speaking of his employers, 
the Association for the Protection of Females, in Red Lion- 
square ', makes use of the term the c Institute. 5 
An Observer. 
ON ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY. BREEDING EARM STOCK. 
By E. J. Lance, Bagsiiot. 
On the occasion of a sale of short-horn stock, in Hants, 
which I reported in April last, I was led to make some 
remarks on the principles which appear to guide nature in 
the production of healthy offspring : since then I have been 
asked for the data on which I found the argument, viz., that 
