696 INSIDIOUS GLANDERS IN HORSES. 
cealed or suppressed by the peculiarity of constitution or vigour 
of the individual horse. This appalling fact is known to vete¬ 
rinary authors; but I think they have not sufficiently pointed it out. 
My wish is to hold it up to the light as the occult form of chronic 
glanders. My object is, that it may serve as a beacon; and prove 
useful to the proprietors of large establishments, as post and 
coach masters, town carmen, &c. by removing an erroneous im¬ 
pression from their minds, which many of them have most obsti¬ 
nately indulged in—that of considering a slight gleet from the 
nose, although of long continuance, as harmless, because that 
individual horse may happen to be extremely hardy, and as ef¬ 
fective as any on their establishment. 
I w ill relate a case, out of the many which have occurred to 
me of the same kind: —A few years ago, a respectable farmer 
solicited my opinion respecting a hackney mare which he had 
some time in full work; and w ho told me that he did not know 
there was any thing amiss with her, but wished her to be exa¬ 
mined. She was about seven or eight years old, in excellent 
condition, and had a good coat. The farmer directed my espe¬ 
cial attention to the head, saying that there had been a discharge 
from the off-nostril for a considerable time, but in so slight a 
degree as scarcely to be considered w orthy of notice, especially 
as the mare w r as not jugged. There w as, however, an enlarge¬ 
ment of the gland about the size of a tick-bean, and quite loose. 
If my attention had not been particularly directed to it, I might 
have passed it over as not of much importance. I four/d that 
the farmer had had the mare seven or eight months; that the 
discharge had existed during the whole time ; and that he had 
kept her away from the other farming horses. The farmer 
wished for a decided opinion respecting her. I replied, that 
the mere circumstance of the discharge having existed for so 
long a time, led me to suspect that she would never be perfectly 
sound; and that the farmer would not be justified in sending 
her into the market. She was immediately taken to a slaugh¬ 
terhouse in the neighbourhood. While arrangements were 
making with the collar-maker, a farrier interfered, and pur¬ 
chased her for three pounds; and triumphantly rode her up the 
tow n, and declared, in no measured terms, that I had committed 
a grand blunder, and that he should make a complete cure 
of her. 
Five or six weeks afterwards I was told that the farrier had 
nearly cured the condemned mare. I replied, that, if he had only 
nearly cured her, I understood the state in which she was. A 
month after this, I was examining the post-horses at an inn near 
London, when I was told that, by some collusion between the farrier 
