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OBSERVATIONS ON SOUNDNESS. 
it is anything but of pink colour. We are all aware of the 
susceptibility of the horse to catarrhal affections_, and it is 
not unreasonable to suppose that not only a chatige of colour, 
but of its substance also, might and does occur after repeated 
attacks of catarrh. If we reflect for a moment upon the vast 
extent of mucous membrane lining the air-passages, we need 
not be surprised at horses becoming whistlers, wheezers, 
pipers, high-blowers, bulls, grunters, roarers, &c. The only 
wonder is, that they escape so frequently. 
Nasal gleet sometimes terminates in glanders. Has any 
veterinary surgeon, when first called to treat a case of 
nasal gleet, inoculated an animal with the nasal discharge 
for the purpose of testing its innocuousness? I have never 
heard of its being done. In that case referred to, I suc¬ 
ceeded in producing glanders. This is a great fact. Who 
can say that many cases of gleet, in some particular stages 
of it, are not capable of propagating disease ? I am inclined 
to think that a lesser number of cases of glanders would be 
met with, if we would sacrifice an animal occasionally; at all 
events human life would be spared more frequently than it 
is. A case was recently recorded of a boy having died of 
this loathsome complaint; how, or in what manner the disease 
was contracted, it was not satisfactorily proved. That the 
boy had had something to do with a horse suffering from 
glanders there was not a shadow of a doubt; at the same 
time, evidence was wanting to fix the receiving of contagious 
matter/'/w;? the animal in question. Still, no person can come to 
any other conclusion than that of the lad having been poisoned 
with glandered matter. I am therefore of opinion that an 
animal at the time he is presented for examination having a 
nasal discharge, with an approach to an mihealthy state of 
mucous membrane, should be rejected. 
These remarks being so lengthy, will prevent my making 
any allusion to the diseases of the salivary glands. In my 
next paper they will come into notice in their proper place 
under the head Strangles,” when I shall take an opportunity 
of offering a few more remarks upon glanders. 
{To he coniimied 
