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694 INSIDIOUS GLANDERS IN HORSES* 
INSIDIOUS GLANDERS IN HORSES. 
By Mr . James Turner, Veterinary Surgeon , Regent Street , 
London. 
[Read at the Veterinary Medical Society, Nov. 18, 1830,] 
Gentlemen, 
At our last meeting I had the honour of reading a short paper 
descriptive of a new method of treatment for the cure of glanders 
and farcy; but Mr. Goodwin having suggested that the Society 
ought to discuss the nature of the disease called Glanders, pre¬ 
vious to entering into a consideration of the merits or demerits of 
my remedy, I am, therefore, induced to add a few more lines on 
the subject: not, however, undertaking to describe the nature 
of the disease, but merely with the view of calling the attention 
of the Society to a species of glanders which is of such a trea¬ 
cherous kind, that a good standard-practitioner might altogether 
overlook the complaint, with respect to its importance, without 
any dereliction of duty, unless his attention had been directed by 
his employer to one particular circumstance, which I shall pre¬ 
sently point out. 
It has been customary to consider a horse to be glandered in 
the case of an enlarged submaxillary gland adherent to the side 
of the jaw; a purulent discharge from one nostril issuing from 
the same side of the head, and accompanied with a decided ul¬ 
ceration of the Schneiderian membrane to a considerable extent : 
when all these symptoms have existed in the same animal for a 
considerable time, in defiance of treatment, I believe he is pro¬ 
nounced by most veterinarians a glandered horse. Should a farcy 
ulcer or two supervene, not a shadow of doubt then remains. 
I take alarm very early in these cases, and instantly remove 
any horse from others which has been known to have discharged 
from one or both nostrils beyond the ordinary period of time 
consumed in the clearing off of common catarrh, influenza, dis¬ 
temper, &c.; with or without the accompaniment of an enlarged 
gland, or any other morbid symptom, regarding the simple gleet 
alone, merely from its long continuance , a case suspicious of 
glanders. 
When my suspicions have proved unfounded, the sequel 
having shewn an error on the right side, my employer has never 
complained; but, on the other hand, this system of precaution, 
most tenaciously followed in the course of a long practice, has 
afforded me the means of detecting a most destructive and lurk¬ 
ing enemy, to which every description of horse is more or less ex¬ 
posed : it is a disease that I shall distinguish from the two more 
