126 MR. YOUATT S VETERINARY LECTURES. 
stantly flowing —not sticky at first —aqueous—a little mucus 
gradually mixing with it, and this continuing for an indefinite 
period of time before it assumes a viscid character. 
Here, gentlemen, is an error into which our best writers on 
veterinary pathology have fallen. They have described with 
sufficient accuracy the middle stage of glanders, but they have 
overlooked the early and most important one, when a cure might, 
if ever, be effected, and when the mischief resulting from conta¬ 
gion is most frequently produced. The discharge of glanders is 
not sticky when it may be first recognized. It is aqueous or 
mucous, but small and constant, and is thus distinguished from 
catarrh or nasal gleet, or any other defluxion from the nostril. 
I would then wish to impress it on your minds, that this small and 
constant defluxion, overlooked by the groom and the owner, and 
too often by the veterinary surgeon, is a most suspicious circum¬ 
stance. 
We owe a great deal to Mr. James Turner here. He first, or 
chiefly, directed our attention to this important and disregarded 
circumstance; indeed he is so suspicious of mischief, that although 
a horse is in ever so good condition, if he has this small con¬ 
stant discharge, and especially from one nostril, he separates him 
at once from his companions. It is a very proper precaution. 
The owner will not be offended, although this defluxion should 
not ultimately betray lurking mischief of a worse character; and 
he will give you credit for vigilance, for discrimination, and 
pleasing attention to his interest, if you should be right in your 
surmise. 
Mr. Turner relates a case so much in point that I must not 
omit to quote it. A farmer asked his opinion respecting a mare 
in excellent condition, with a sleek coat, and in full work; he had 
had her for seven or eight months, and during the whole of that 
time there had been a discharge from the right nostril, but in so 
slight a degree as scarcely to be deemed worthy of notice, and 
especially as there was no adherence of the submaxillary gland, 
which was not larger than a tick-bean, and quite loose. He 
now wanted to sell her, and, like an honest man, wished to know 
whether he might conscientiously warrant her. Mr. Turner very 
properly gave it as his opinion, that, the discharge having existed 
for so long a time, he would not be justified in sending her into 
the market. The farmer ordered her at once to the slaughter¬ 
house. 
A farrier, however, whose ideas of glanders had always been 
connected with a sticky discharge and an adherent gland, met 
with her there, and said that Mr. Turner had committed a most 
egregious blunder, and bought her and led her away. Three 
