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have become constitutionally affected. His coat will stare 
and fall off; he will lose flesh, and his belly will be tucked 
up ; cough will follow; the appetite will be much affected, 
accompanied by a rapid diminution of strength ; the tubercles 
will multiply; discharge will be much more abundant, and 
will assume a purulent and bloody appearance, accompanied 
with a very foetid smell. The ulceration will extend down 
the windpipe, and the lungs will be in a very short time 
studded with tubercles. A test of the lungs having become 
affected, the breathing will be difficult, and a stifled, 
grating noise accompanies it, which is a certain prelude to 
death. 
A common catarrh has often been mistaken for glanders ; 
but a little attention will soon enable any one to perceive 
the distinction between those diseases. Catarrh is invariably 
accompanied by fever, sore throat, generally cough, loss of 
appetite, and a discharge from both nostrils, and, in most 
cases, very copious; sometimes purulent; the glands are 
generally swollen in both sides of the throat, are moveable 
and hot to the touch. The proper means being adopted, 
all the symptoms are abated. Strangles have also been mis¬ 
taken for glanders. This disease usually affects young horses 
only. At first they resemble a common cold, with a severe 
cough and wheezing, and accompanied with a considerable 
thickening and swelling between the jawbones. The swell¬ 
ings become harder towards the middle, and a fluid can be 
felt in their centre, which ultimately breaks, and a discharge 
flows from it. The mucous membrane of the nostrils is of a 
vivid red colour; and an ample discharge continues, which 
is mixed with pus from nearly the commencement. 
The remote cause of glanders has hitherto baffled all the 
members of the veterinary art: its true history being still 
unknown, and the unsatisfactory theories of medical authors 
