THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XVII, No. 201. SEPTEMBER 1844. New Series, No. 33. 
GLANDERS. 
By William PerCIVALL, M.R.C.S . , Veterinary Surgeon 
First Life Guards. 
Definition . — GLANDERS consists in a discharge, from one or 
both nostrils, of matter which by transfer or inoculation will pro- 
duce the disease in another animal (of the equine or human species), 
and which discharge is, sooner or later, accompanied by vascular 
injection and chancrous ulceration of the Schneiderian membrane, 
by tumefaction of the submaxillary lymphatic glands, and by farcy. 
Symptoms of Glanders. 
Discharge from the nose, enlargement of the submaxillary lymph- 
atic glands, vascular injection or inflammation of the membrane 
lining the nose and different sinuses of the head, thickening, ulcer- 
ation of it, mortification, exfoliation of the septal cartilage and 
turbinated bones, constitute the local and characteristic symptoms 
of glanders : they may be, and occasionally are, all present ; com- 
monly but two of them make their appearance in the incipient 
stages of the sub-acute and chronic forms of the disease, which 
two, or even one without the other, may be sufficient to constitute 
a case of glanders. 
CONSTITUTIONAL DISORDER, either to a degree to 
attract the notice of those who look after the animal, or so slight 
as to be detectible by the professional attendant alone, invariably 
attends or ushers in an attack of glanders. There may or may 
not be palpable depression of spirits, and disinclination or indif- 
ference for food; there will be, more or less, discoverable in- 
dications of fever, such as increase of pulse, heat and dryness of 
mouth, heavy and watery appearance of the eyes, roughness and 
opacity of the coat. The horse may not be thought or called 
“ amiss” by the groom, and yet the veterinary surgeon finds in 
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