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SUSPECTED CASES OF GLANDERS. 
He lay down w hilst in the yard, seemingly very ill and in much 
pain, and as if he w as about to die: he w as soon destroyed, and on 
Examination , I found the nostrils as badly ulcerated as in the 
other, but not so offensive; and the frontal sinuses full of similar 
matter, but of a more mucous nature. The trachea was slightly 
ulcerated in several places. The lungs contained many abscesses 
of a ragged description, and seemed as if formed of many tuber¬ 
cles that had suppurated. The submaxillary glands were little 
larger than usual, and not attached to the jaws. There was 
great effusion of lymph about the base of the heart. 
This horse had been unwell for nearly six months, and became 
much worse on being turned out to grass. 
Observations .—From what I have road, the principal symp¬ 
toms of glanders are said to be, an ulceration of the Schneiderian 
membrane, great discharge from the nostrils, and a peculiar hard¬ 
ness and enlargement of the submaxillary glands, which are 
attached to the jaws; and tubercles are found in the lungs. If 
such be the invariable symptoms of glanders, I must conclude 
that the foregoing cases were of that description; but I am in¬ 
clined to think, that every case attended by these symptoms is 
not glanders; for I have frequently seen cases of catarrh ter¬ 
minating in a few r days in the most malignant ulcerations, and 
followed by death. 
Any one whose practice has enabled him satisfactorily to 
answ T er the following questions, would oblige the w r riter, and, no 
doubt, many of your readers: viz. 
1st. Do severe cartarrhal affections produce glanders? 
2d. Do not many horses with chronic inflammation of the 
lungs have the nostrils much ulcerated, and the glands enlarged? 
3d. Can every case in which there is ulceration of the Schnei¬ 
derian membrane, discharge from the nostrils, and enlarged sub¬ 
maxillary glands, be said to be one of glanders ? 
4th. If not, how r are they to be distinguished ? and is inocula¬ 
tion always to be depended on? 
I am led to make these inquiries from there being many horses 
in this neighbourhood that have the symptoms of glanders, and 
their owners declare that they have not been exposed to infection; 
and because I find much difficulty in positively deciding on many 
cases, from being aware, in my own mind , that ulceration of the 
pituitary membrane, and the trivial enlargement, in numerous 
cases, of the submaxillary glands, are fallacious guides, and 
ought not to be depended upon. 
There is a very interesting case of suspected glanders reported 
by Mr. Watt, of Edinburgh, in the second volume of The Vete- 
