702 
VETERINARY MEDICAL SOCIETY. 
clear that the disease was the consequence of inoculation. Farcy 
appeared four or five days after the inoculation, and I watched the 
progress of the disease for ten days or a fortnight before they died. 
Mr, Field conceived that the case which Mr. Turner had de¬ 
scribed was precisely one of chronic glanders,—that form of the 
disease which we so often see, with a thin, milky, starchy dis¬ 
charge, scarcely blue, with little portions of pus mixed with it, and 
the discharge so scanty as scarcely to be distinguished from the 
common moisture of the nose. In cases of this kind, the glands 
were as often loose as attached. As to the history of the case 
being the only guide, he thought that the symptoms were quite 
sufficient to induce Mr. Turner to give the proper and cautious 
opinion which he did. A veterinary surgeon need take much 
time for consideration, before he gave a decided opinion in cases 
of this sort. They should be put to the test of inoculation. 
Mr. Turner .— One marked difference between this insidious 
disease and the common form of glanders, is the exceedingly tri¬ 
fling alteration in the glands; so small indeed, as, without the 
previous history, to induce the observer to pay little or no atten¬ 
tion to the case. 
Mr. Henderson had often seen this slight and scarcely per¬ 
ceptible discharge, and when it continued long it always excited 
his suspicion. He had generally found that the gland was tender. 
Mr. Turner had never remarked that the gland was tender in 
these cases of long-continued slight discharge. 
Mr. Woodin agreed with Mr. Field, that this was a case of 
chronic glanders. He knew one marked case, in which a dis¬ 
charge scarcely more than natural, except when the horse laboured 
under catarrh, had existed for a long time. The horse belonged 
to a widow, who had lost six horses, and all of them, he believed, 
by infection from this horse. The size of the gland varied; it 
was sometimes as small as a pea, at other times as large as a 
walnut. The horse is still living, and in fine condition. He 
knew a second case, in which a person had lost eight or nine horses 
in the same way. 
Mr. Turner observed, that in the greater number of cases of 
chronic glanders, the gland was of a much larger §ize. 
Mr. Field always regarded the enlargement between the jaws 
as sympathetic with the disease of the nostrils. The tumefaction 
is precisely proportionate to the disease existing in the nostril. 
Mr. Woodin recollected that twenty-six horses were shot in 
one day, when he was in Scotland, all infected by one troop-horse 
that had been glandered, but that had appeared partially to re¬ 
cover : he appeared to be well, except that there was the slightest 
possible weeping from one nostril. The veterinary surgeon would 
