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many different symptoms and complications due to other diseases, and 
very few diagnostic ; in truth, there was no single symptom of glanders 
but what might be found in other diseases, and a diagnosis could only be 
made by considering the whole group of symptoms. Veterinary surgeons, 
as a rule, were inclined to err upon the side of saving the animal’s life. 
When called in by the owner they frequently expressed doubt and would 
look for the ulcer in the nostril, without which many thought the animal 
ought not to be killed. This idea should be exploded at once. It was very 
difficult for one, as an inspector, to condemn a horse without risk of much 
bother, especially if the owner produced some veterinary surgeon to say 
the horse was not suffering from glanders, in which case one would run 
the risk of having an action for damages brought against him. Accord- 
ing to the Act of Parliament no man has a right to have a suspicious 
horse about the streets, and a policeman is justified in stopping such a 
case as much as if it was a most confirmed case of glanders. This was 
an advantage, because one could order a suspicious case to be isolated, 
and few persons cared to provide a place for that purpose, and pre¬ 
ferred having the animal destroyed instead. At times one meets 
remarkable cases of glanders complicated by other diseases, or arising as 
the result of accident. That either farcy or glanders could be originated 
as the result of some other disease he would deny. In all cases where 
glanders or farcy supervened upon another disease or injury, the poison 
had existed in the system for some time, and would become developed 
sooner or later, but accident or other diseases might tend to develop 
the primary affection. Some time since he had a case in which the first 
appearance the animal presented one would think it was a case of acute 
farcy; the animal had farcy buds all over him. He set the case down as 
nettlerash accompanying acute glanders. The buds varied in size from 
a pea to a walnut. There were the usual symptoms of acute glanders— 
the discharge of pus and blood from the nose with well-marked ulceration. 
As regarded the temperature of discharge, he thought no faith should 
be placed in it whatever ; had not used a thermometer to ascertain it, 
but within a few degrees could trust to his hand. In cases of acute 
glanders, with much inflammation, there was a higher temperature. 
Sometimes the discharge was from the lungs and not the nostrils, in 
which case, no doubt, the temperature was higher than in other nasal 
discharges. He had seen a case which bore upon the question, in which 
a horse, having no discharge from the nose whatever and no enlargement 
of the glands, walked some distance. At the end of its journey it was 
seen by the slaughterer to have a very considerable discharge from the 
nose, and some enlargement of the glands. That was on a Saturday. 
He saw the horse the day following and the swelling in the glands had 
nearly disappeared, and there was no ulcer in the nostril. The horse 
was killed. Upon making a post-mortem he found it had glandered 
lungs, from a cavity in which there had, no doubt, been a recent escape 
of purulent matter. This case also proved the incurability of farcy. 
The animal was most undoubtedly suffering from an attack of farcy some 
four years previous to death, when it had glandered lungs, but no 
veterinary surgeon could have detected any disease in the animal. 
There were many other cases met with which tended to prove that one 
could not believe more in the curability of farcy than they could of 
glanders. It was arguable that in some of the very slightest cases of 
farcy, where there was very slight swelling and only one oi two farcy 
buds some good might be done, but it would not hold good that it was a 
curable disease. If farcy were curable there would be a very strong 
argument against the Government in enforcing the slaughteiing of all 
