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GLANDERS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. 
preferable to the loop, as it not only serves to steady the pessary, 
but also produces a gentle pressure upon the vulva and ischial 
tuberosities, which materially assists in retaining the uterus. 
A surcingle encircling the chest occurs to me as a better method 
to attach the said ropes to, especially if the surcingle is in turn se¬ 
cured to a collar to prevent it from slipping backwards. 
GLANDERS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY* 
This equine disease is presented in two forms, the one known 
as the white or stone glanders—weisse sonsten stein-rotz genannt 
—which is curable in the early stages, and the other, which is 
called yellow and mixed with blood (these terms refer to the 
color or character of the nasal discharges) and which gives forth 
an evil odor, and is incurable. 
The signs of the disease are: 
1. When a horse having the disease is ridden hard aud 
checked suddenly, it will appear as if suffocating for want of 
breath. 
2. The material which Hows from the nose sinks to the bottom 
of a vesssel filled with water, if thrown into it. 
3. The flow is constant. 
4. If the flow is white and odorless it is “ stein-rotz.” 
5. If yellow, reddish or mixed with blood, the case is 
incurable. 
6. Such horses often let fall a rotten moisture—“ faule Feuch- 
tigkeit”—from the mouth. 
7. When water is given them, a great mass of stuff is often to 
l>e seen discharged from the nose and mouth. 
8 The ears and head droop. 
9. Breathing is heavy. 
10. Appetite is poor. 
11. Cough, and are sucked up in flanks. 
12. Have cold nostrils. 
* From the Hippieter Expertat of Winter von Adlers Flugal, Nuremburg, 
1678. 
