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not have him destroyed, but at length he, and all the other in¬ 
fected horses, were killed, at the order of the commanding officer, 
and the plague was immediately stayed. There was here the 
slightest possible enlargement of the glands, and sometimes ob¬ 
scure symptoms of farcy. 
Mr. Turner observed, that all these facts prove that it is one 
and the same poison. The variety of appearance is the conse¬ 
quence of difference of constitution in the animal that secretes it, 
and the degree in which the constitution was able to resist the 
progress of the disease. 
Mr. Goodwin said, that from all that he had heard on the sub¬ 
ject of glanders lately, it seemed that the more we talked of it, 
the less we knew about it. Mr. Sewell, and Mr. Vines, and now 
Mr. Turner, had produced their lucubrations on this mysterious 
subject, and Mr. Turner had added a third variety in this “insi¬ 
dious disease.” He confessed, that either from inexperience or 
ignorance he could not always pronounce this insidious disease to 
be glanders. This discharge might result from the relaxed state 
of the vessels of the membrane, in consequence of inflammation. 
He had had many cases of glanders under his care, but he could 
not always say, at the first examination of the animals, that they 
were glandered; he was accustomed to wait for some develope- 
ment of the disease. He should often doubt both the prudence 
and the correctness of his diagnosis, who, under the circum¬ 
stances which Mr. Turner described, should immediately pro¬ 
nounce a horse to be glandered. 
Mr. Turner had told the owner at the time, that no practitioner, 
either in town or country, would declare the horse to be glandered 
merely from the symptoms which it exhibited; but he was guided 
by the history of the case. The discharge had existed eight months. 
He did not at first pronounce the mare to be glandered, but he 
said that the discharge would not cease; and he was induced to 
do this, violently suspecting that she was glandered, by the cir¬ 
cumstance, that she had the discharge when she was purchased. 
Mr. Goodwin begged to relate a case:—A twelvemonth ago, 
a horse came under his care that had a mucous discharge from 
one nostril. Soon afterwards the submaxillary gland became en¬ 
larged. He lost sight of the animal for awhile, but four months 
afterwards he was brought again under his notice. He had pu¬ 
rulent discharge from the near nostril. He tried for more than 
six months to cure him. He used the sulphate of copper and 
cantharides, and he blistered, and rowelled, and physicked, but 
all without avail. The discharge, more than once, ceased for a 
full fortnight, but returned as violently as before. At length the 
horse was destroyed. The thoracic and abdominal viscera were 
