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known among scientific men abroad, and unrecognized by me¬ 
dical men at home, except those who have been, and occasionally 
a little too deeply, taught in the school of the horseman and the 
groom. Now, that we are attempting to overtake and to vie 
with our veterinary continental brethren, and to vindicate our 
relationship to our medical brethren at home, it may be advisable, 
in our scientific discussions at least, to forget the vocabulary of 
the stable. 
Lessons of Caution .—If we deny then the uniform stickiness 
of the discharge, we may occasionally be a little puzzled. We 
shall be so, and it will teach us to be more cautious in our 
professional examinations, and less positive in some of our deci¬ 
sions. I have heard a practitioner boast that he had passed (as 
sound) no fewer than sixty horses in one morning. I thought it a 
disgraceful confession, when I first heard it; and the more I have 
thought of it, the more have I been convinced that it involved 
gross dereliction of duty to his employers. It is well known that 
there is one practitioner who has the conducting of far more exa¬ 
minations for soundness than any other in the metropolis. His 
reputation is founded entirely on his caution. He employs what 
some would think a very unnecessary portion of time in every 
examination ; and has been known to detain a horse one, two, or 
three days in his stable before he would give a decided opinion. 
We are beginning to learn a lesson of caution already, when we 
find the difficulty of distinguishing the characteristic discharge 
of glanders. I shall have too many occasions to impress this 
lesson upon you as we go on. 
Progress of the Nasal Discharge .—Inflammation cannot long 
continue without producing some disorganization of structure or 
alteration of function in the affected part; and, the disease having 
existed for a greater or less length of time, the secretion from the 
nose is altered in quality as well as increased in quantity, and 
we have the peculiar viscidity of which all our writers speak, and 
which cannot be mistaken. The discharge is more pellucid than 
that of catarrh—it has seldom any offensive smell, it still con¬ 
tinues to flow constantly on, and it has a singular stickiness, un¬ 
pleasantly adhering to the finger, and sometimes in a manner 
glueing the nostrils together. This also continues for an indefi¬ 
nite period of time, until the disease has committed greater 
ravages on the membrane which is its seat, and the discharge 
becomes purulent, bloody, foetid. Ulceration has then taken place 
the membrane of the cavity, or of some of the cells connected 
with it. The colour of the septum will now begin to change. 
It has usually been described as pale, or livid, or brown, in 
glanders. In the early stage of the disease, however, it has a 
