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charge then upon him) had been turned into the same pasture 
with the young horses, and they were kept together until the 
young horses were removed in consequence of their having be¬ 
come diseased. 
Treatment was of no avail, and in six weeks the young horses 
were decidedly glandered. A professional friend who saw them 
agreed with me in opinion that it was putting their owner to use¬ 
less expense to continue the treatment any longer, and they 
were destroyed. 
At this time the constitutional symptoms shewed themselves 
in the hunter; ulceration and bleeding from the nose came on, 
farcy supervened, and this very valuable horse, for which 150 
guineas had been refused, was consigned to destruction. The 
value of the three horses mentioned was at least £400, and I 
think there can be no doubt that in them glanders was propa¬ 
gated by contagion. Of the treatment of glanders I have nothing 
to offer, and am sorry to observe that I am afraid, as yet, we have 
no remedy for it. Those who have laboured to elucidate this 
important subject deserve our best thanks, and I sincerely wish 
that their endeavours may be crowned with success. 
ON THE IMPERFECTION OF THE PRESENT VETE¬ 
RINARY NOSOLOGY. 
By Mr. Harrison, F.S., Lancaster. 
Nosology being deemed in itself so essentially requisite for the 
qualification of the physician and surgeon, cannot, for similar rea¬ 
sons,be accounted unimportant to the morehumble yet highly use¬ 
ful practitioner of veterinary medicine; but why this useful if not 
equally important part of our profession is so much and so shame¬ 
fully neglected, and allowed to remain in the dark and obscure 
state it is, is not for me to decide. I should be loath to attribute 
its present forlorn condition to a want of ability on the part of 
veterinary professors and practitioners, but rather to a false deli¬ 
cacy which restrains them from the introduction of new names, 
and, what also must unavoidably follow, new diseases into veteri¬ 
nary science; yet all practitioners must concur in opinion as to its 
necessity, and more particularly when they reflect that the sci¬ 
ence we profess, although daily progressing in the path of im¬ 
provement, is but as yet in an imbecile state. To all veterinary 
surgeons who pride themselves in being not nominally but really 
such, these few fleeting remarks may be useful, and will, in all 
probability, forcibly press upon their minds the existing necessity 
for a true and plain classification of diseases, and which, when 
