PATHOLOGY OP GLANDERS. 
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the subject. This morbid state of the system generates 
glanders in horses of hereditary tendency. I have met with 
many cases occurring to officers'’ horses soon after joining 
regiments, which were perfectly free from the disease, that 
could not be traced to any other source. The unhealthy 
condition of the blood so favorable to the deposition of the 
granular albuminous tubercle of glanders, appears to arise 
from a deficiency of the fibrinous portion which weakens its 
motion in the capillaries, and consequently exudation suc¬ 
ceeds. Where albumen is in excess, vitality is lower than 
' natural, and associated with a reduced standard of health, 
giving rise to albuminous deposition in masses, which increase 
and terminate in ulceration, vomica, haemoptysis phthisica, 
and ultimately death. 
With those facts before us, 1 may safely assert that 
glanders arises chiefly from a strumous diathesis, generated 
by any of those causes that reduce the vital energies or 
deteriorate the blood. Where the disease is contracted by 
the absorption of the virus through the cuticle, local and 
constitutional efi’ects are produced according to the diathesis, 
condition, &c. In some cases pimples appear on the olfac¬ 
tory membrane with irritation and congestion of the lungs, 
and a scanty greenish discharge from one nostril, and some¬ 
times from both ; the lining of which presents a glassy or icy 
appearance, with reduction of temperature. Enlargement 
of the submaxillary lymphatic glands generally takes place 
in the advanced stages from deep ulceration in the nostrils. 
Animals so affected may appear in good health, the pimples 
and nasal flux often disappearing, and all the symptoms of 
glanders being absent, with the exception of a deposit of 
tubercles in the lungs. Should the subject be taken good 
care of, this chronic state of glanders may continue for an 
indefinite length of tim.e. In other cases, active disease will 
run its course rapidly. 
We observe a similar state of the system in the cowq as 
in the linseed fed horse, giving rise to those enormous exu¬ 
dations we witness in pleuro-pneumonia. There is every 
reason to believe that this formidable disease had its origin, 
and is perpetuated, by the mismanagement of the supplies 
of the stomach. The various kinds of food employed for 
fattening purposes, load the blood with morbid particles, 
which depress the nervous power of the stomach and other 
digestive organs, so that eventually the stomach, in which 
we must remember the blood-forming process commences, 
becomes incapable of preparing proper materials for the 
healthy supply of the blood, and, consequently, such a re- 
