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THE VETERINARIAN, FEBRUARY 1, 1859. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. 
Cicero. 
“ USING A GLANDERED HORSE IN A PUBLIC VEHICLE ” 
In giving insertion to a communication from Mr. T. A. 
Dollar on the subject of “ using a glanderecl horse in a public 
vehicle ” we are desirous of expressing our sentiments of the 
whole transaction. 
First, with regard to the case itself; we do not hesitate to 
record our firm conviction that the opinion given by our 
colleague, Mr. Varnell, of the horse being glandered when 
examined by him in September last, was perfectly correct. 
Secondly. We consider that the symptoms now shown by 
the animal are sufficient indications that the malady still 
lurks in his system in a latent form. 
As to the healing of the ulcers in the nostrils, and the 
diminution of the enlargement of the submaxillary glands 
being adduced as the “ best test of the animal being 
glandered or notf we would remark that, in common with 
many veterinary surgeons of experience, we have seen several 
instances where the same thing has taken place, and it is 
not a satisfactory proof of the malady not being really 
glanders. These are the very cases to deceive the young 
practitioner and the man of boasted specifics : besides which, 
they are also the most likely ones to spread the disease 
among other horses. 
Well do we remember, for it is painfully impressed 
on our minds by the ruin with which it was associated, and 
by the opposition we had to encounter, an instance of a 
horse of the kind being left for three years in a coaching 
establishment, and which during this time experienced no 
less than three relapses of the disease, discharging on these 
occasions from his nostrils the characteristic matter of 
