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attached to the lower jaw. The ulcers have a very decided character, 
and the matter at an advanced stage has a very offensive smell. In a 
slow chronic case a horse may live for years; in an acute attack he 
generally dies in six months. A mild form is curable. Has never 
known an acute attack cured. Strangles consists of swelling extending 
from the ear to the throat. It is not easily distinguishable from 
glanders by unskilled persons. There is usually a running from the 
nostrils. 
To his Honor.—A neglected strangles exposed to inclement weather 
might decidedly run on to glanders. 
To ajuror.—The discharge is fetid in both cases. 
The swellings of glanders never attain the same size as in strangles, 
nor are the swellings situate at the same place. The swellings in 
strangles may extend down nearly to the lip—those in glanders are 
situated in the angle of the jaw. The swelling in glanders could not 
be properly described to be as big as a hat. The knocking of a horse 
about on board ship might produce swelling of the head, like strangles. 
A horse in strangles would get weak, and be much disposed to lie down. 
With a horse on board ship, carried on deck, and not in the close hold, 
it would take months for strangles to degenerate to glanders. Would 
not say that a horse was not glandered because the disease was not com¬ 
municated to other horses by the use of the same sponge. Doubts if 
strangles is either contagious or infectious. Thinks that glanders is 
both. 
To a juryman.—The offensiveness of the discharge does not afford a 
means of discriminating between the two diseases. A horse in strangles 
on board ship, without a veterinary surgeon, and having his head 
swollen as big as a hat, would have little chance of surviving. If the 
swelling were opened it would dissipate naturally, and cure itself. 
There would be no use in opening glanders. There is no imprisoned 
matter in glanders. You would only be cutting through the gland. 
Witness was cross-examined at great length by Mr. Wright. Mr. 
Wright read the symptoms described in the document signed on board 
ship, to which the grooms had affixed their signatures. And witness 
said he would conclude from these symptoms, if he knew no more, 
that the horse was suffering from an aggravated catarrh, and that a 
horse so affected would have little chance of living through the voyage. 
Re-examined.—The discharge of matter from the swelling when 
lanced was inconsistent with the supposition of glanders: there would 
be no discharge in lancing a swelling of glanders. 
This witness was examined and cross-examined at great length as to 
the precise nature of glanders, and the distinction between it and 
strangles. 
Mr. Robert Gibton , M.R.C.V.S , London, was also examined with 
great particularity, and at great length. 
This closed the plaintiff’s case. 
Some nonsuit points were raised, and reserved. 
The foreman of the jury said that if it were not irregular, the jury 
would wish to inform the Court that they had made up their minds. 
It would probably save the time of the Court. 
Some parley took place between counsel, the parties not knowing 
which the jury had concluded to find for. At length it was agreed that 
defendant should not go into his case, and that counsel on both sides 
should waive their right of addressing the jury, trusting to the Judge’s 
charge. 
His Honor charged briefly, stating to the jury that the issue for them 
was, was the horse affected with glanders, or any other infectious and 
