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GLANDERS. 
him evident signs of indisposition. A great many years ago, an 
old and much-respected professional friend of mine, Mr. Berring- 
ton, formerly veterinary surgeon to the staff corps of cavalry, and 
late of the cavalry depot at Maidstone, drew my attention to this 
premonitory or accompanying disorder of the first stage of gland- 
ers ; and subsequent observation not only confirmed in my mind 
the truth of his practical remark, that few or no cases com- 
menced without it, but likewise convinced me that even those 
cases of sub-acute disease which appeared completely to regain 
their health and spirits, were not, on closer examination, left alto- 
gether free from this febrile state of system. In general, after the 
first stage is passed, as soon as the discharges from the nose 
have become established, the animal rallies from any indispo- 
sition he may have shewn, recovers his spirits and appetite, and, 
to the common observer, appears as well as ever. This manifes- 
tation of recovery has led unprofessional persons to suppose that, 
were it not for “ the running at the nose,” and “ the kernels,” 
there would be little or nothing the matter with the horse : in all 
other respects he is regarded as being in sound and good health, 
and to such persons as have not seen him during the attack of the 
glanders, or whose observation has not been sufficient to enable 
them to detect any difference in him at that time, he has never 
appeared otherwise than in his usual state of health : hence the 
prevalence of the common notion, that glandered horses can do 
work the same as others; and, indeed, such is for a time the trifling 
constitutional derangement occasioned by the disease that they, in 
reality, are capable of work — though, still, not of the severest kind — 
so long as the disease in the head continues in the sub-acute or 
chronic form, and the lungs hold their integrity. The preservation 
of their condition, and the good looks glandered horses for a time 
maintain, it is also that, when artful means are taken to conceal 
the nasal discharge and the tumours under the throat, enable 
sharpers to dispose of them as sound horses. In fine, one of the 
characteristic symptoms of the disease, in certain stages, is the 
unaffected good spirits and condition, and feelings of health, the 
animal manifestly enjoys. 
Leblanc confirms the foregoing observations. “ I have uni- 
formly observed,” says he, “ that horses exposed to causes con- 
sidered as productive of glanders have exhibited some symptoms 
of general functional disorder prior to the manifestation of the 
malady;” adding, that “ horses that become glandered and farcied 
without this premonitory disorder, derive the disease from con - 
tagion .” Should this latter remark prove well founded, it might 
turn out one of some value to us: I fear, however, it is one 
unconfirmed by experience. 
