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more important it is to be able to fully realize the condition and 
character of the disease. 
There is, probably, none which comes under this peculiar as¬ 
pect outside of glanders. How simple, in fact, it is for the vet¬ 
erinarian to establish a diagnosis of glanders, when the three es¬ 
sential pathognomonic symptoms of the disease are existing ; when 
the gland, the discharge, and the ulcerated condition of the sep¬ 
tum nasi are presenting the characteristic conditions belonging to 
that disease. But witli how much hesitancy will an opinion be 
expressed in the absence of one of these symptoms alone, when 
the chancres of the septum nasi cannot be discovered, or when 
with this, the glands do not have the known condition of adhe¬ 
sion to the bones, and still more, when there is only a slight 
but characteristic discharge, perhaps at times bloody, with pos¬ 
sibly a peculiar condition of the membrane of the nose, as re¬ 
gards color, smoothness or softness to the touch—in other words, 
when the patient presents only the external symptoms of that 
form of the disease, but recently recognized, and which to-day we 
speak of as latent glanders, be it laryngeal or pulmonary. 
How extensive practical observations must one have made, 
how many cases must a practitioner see, before he can, in the 
presence of this form of the disease, send his patient to the knack¬ 
er’s yard without hesitation ? 
This form of glanders, as we all know, is tlie most dangerous 
of any; for the affected animal may remain, to all appearance, in 
perfect health, eating and working as well as ever, and yet capa¬ 
ble, at the same time, of infecting and destroying many valuable 
animals with which it may come in contact. Even when a sus¬ 
picious discharge from the nose continues, or appears at times, 
no danger is suspected by the owner, who sees in this symptom 
evidence only of a cold. 
I have been prompted to make these few remarks by a single 
case of glanders which recently came under my observation, and 
the peculiarities it presented will, I believe, prove interesting. 
5 of this city, had a valuable mare, six years of 
ao’e, a fast trotter, and valued at several thousand dollars. Aftei 
^season of training she was sent to a breeding farm in New Jer- 
