74 USING A GLANDERED HORSE IN A PUBLIC VEHICLE. 
professional reputation, I hope jmu will have the kindness 
to give it a place in your next number. 
I am, gentlemen, 
Your obedient servant, 
Thomas A. Dollar. 
To the Editors of the ‘ Veterinarian.* 
On the 3d of August last my attention was called to the 
bay horse in question, the horsekeeper complaining of his 
not feeding or drinking freely, and coughing. 
On examination, I found the horse had sore throat, with 
enlargement of the submaxillary and parotid glands, and a 
certain amount of fever. I had him stopped from working, 
his throat stimulated, gave him a fever drink, and ordered 
linseed and bran mashes; repeated the same treatment on 
the following day, and on the 5th found that the fever and 
soreness of the throat had disappeared; the horse had 
regained his usual appetite and spirits, but was discharging 
slightly at both nostrils. Next day I considered him fit to 
go out to work, which he did for a few hours per day up 
to the 11th, the discharge still continuing, but the horse 
feeding well, doing his work freely, and in good style. On 
that day, when the driver brought him home, he reported 
that a policeman had stopped him in the street, on account 
of the discharge at his nose. My attention was particularly 
directed to the horse next day, to give the owner my opinion 
as to whether I considered the horse fit to work, and if I 
would advise his being continued at work. As there was no 
constitutional derangement, the horse feeding well, and in 
first-rate working condition, I was of opinion that he was 
fit for work, and ought to be continued at it. The owner, 
however, from the great trouble and annoyance she had 
been subjected to on previous occasions, was afraid to send 
the horse to work ; and, contrary to my advice, had him sent 
out to grass. Where the horse was turned out the pasture 
was very bare, and a bad supply of water, so that he lost 
flesh very soon, and the discharge still continued. When 
he was brought from grass at the end of five weeks to be 
shown to the magistrate, he was still discharging at both 
nostrils, had considerable enlargement of the submaxillary 
and parotid glands, and likewise (in addition) abrasions of 
the mucous membrane of both nasal cavities. These were 
the appearances presented on the 25th of September, when 
examined by Mr. Arthur Cherry, Veterinary Surgeon to the 
Police, and Professor Varnell, who both pronounced him 
badly glandered, and in their opinion he ought to be imme¬ 
diately destroyed. I examined the horse on the same day. 
