THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XIX, No. 226. OCTOBER 1846. New Series, No. 58. 
THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF A CASE OF NASAL 
GLEET, 
FORMERLY, AND BY SOME EVEN AT THE PRESENT DAY, 
CALLED “ GLANDERS.” 
By William Percivall, M.R.C.S. and V.S. 
THERE is no genus of disease which taxes the judgment of 
the veterinary surgeon more vexatiously than glanders in those 
forms and stages in which it is so closely resembled by other dis- 
eases in certain forms and stages, that to draw the line of demar- 
cation between them is no less vitally important to the proprietor 
of the suspected horse than it is difficult and harassing to the 
veterinary practitioner he may consult. That some scores of 
horses, not to say hundreds, have in times past been condemned 
to slaughter on account of (supposed) “ glanders,” which were in 
truth not glandered at all, no veterinarian of age and experience 
will, I am quite sure, feel disposed to deny. The day, however, 
has at length arrived, when fatal error of this description, if not 
altogether correctible by discrimination and caution, is reduced to 
comparatively rare occurrence. 
The case I am going to relate, simulant as it is of chronic 
glanders, though as a whole it may prove instructive to the young 
veterinarian, will have no other attraction for the old practitioner 
save what may be afforded by the lengthiness and completeness of 
its history, and by its terminal issue ; veterinary surgeons in the 
army being enabled oftener than private practitioners to commence 
at the beginning, and end their account with the final wind-up of 
the case. 
C 15, a troop black gelding, seven years of age, was admitted 
into infirmary stables, in the Regent’s Park Barracks, on the 17th 
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