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TRANSLATIONS FROM CONTINENTAL JOURNALS. 
ON DISEASES OE THE NASAL CAVITIES OFTEN 
CONFOUNDED WITH GLANDERS. 
By L. V. Delwart, Professor, &c. 
The professor states that of all diseases to which domestic 
animals are subject, glanders is, without contradiction, the 
one that has been from remotest time the most perplexing 
to the veterinary practitioner. In spite of all that has been 
written, and veterinary literature is very rich on this subject, 
the nature, cause, and even the primary seat, of this fearful 
affection have hitherto escaped us. Nowhere are the charac¬ 
teristics of this disease sufficiently described so as to enable 
us to diagnose with certainty, and to distinguish it from 
other affections which have their seat in the nasal cavities 
and the sinuses of the head of the solipede ; and the same may 
be said of the pathological and physiological facts which 
have been acquired. Every time that the mucous membrane 
which lines the cavity or the sinus becomes the seat of an 
undue secretion, the divers alterations which develope them¬ 
selves consecutively are, as long as the affection remains 
local, nearly the same, and have nothing specific in their 
character ; and they accompany all these affections in a more 
or less degree of intensity. The secretion, when prolonged, 
forms accumulations in the sinuses, and the matter, by its 
long retention, becomes altered and irritating in its nature, 
and, as in glanders, it is absorbed by the lymphatics and their 
ganglions, and these become enlarged, resembling in every 
respect true glanders. The mucous membrane also becomes 
diseased from the acrid matter, which causes erosions on its 
surface, more or less in size, and which are very difficult to 
distinguish from the ulcers of glanders. No wonder, then, 
that many veterinary surgeons condemn nearly all the horses 
that have a discharge from the nose and an enlargement of 
the glands, in the belief that they have to do with glanders. 
And even when they have some doubts as to the true nature 
of the malady, they will condemn them rather than incur 
the responsibility which the law imposes on them, and also 
on the proprietor, in case other horses should be infected on 
treatment being adopted. Daily horses are slaughtered whose 
affections, taken in time, and with a rational mode of treat¬ 
ment, would have admitted of an easy cure. But being con¬ 
founded with glanders, for which up to the present time no 
cure has been found, they are sacrificed, and thus a large 
amount of property is lost, which would have been saved 
had these diseases been better understood. 
Mr. Del wart, having been for nearly twenty years clinical 
