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glutinous in its substance. If rubbed between the finger
and thumb it has a sticky feel. This discharge also
differs from common cold by being continuous,
whereas in the latter it is only discharged at intervals.
The matter discharged in this disease differs from that of
a common catarrh in its specific gravity. If a small
quantity is dropped into water it sinks, and it will not
mix with water if stirred with it ; whereas the mucous
discharge of a common cold swims near the surface, and
preserves its slimy consistence although stirred, and will
not comingle with it.
A singular character of the glanders is that it always
attacks the left nostril, very few cases having ever been
seen in which the horse was glandered in the right
nostril. Mr. Dupay, a celebrated veterinary surgeon and
director of the School of Surgery at Toulouse, mentions
that out of eight hundred cases of glanders which came
under his care during his practice, only one was affected
in the right nostril. Shortly after the discharge from the
nostril takes place, the horse becomes affected in the
glands of the lower jaw, which swell to a considerable
extent, and ultimately become attached to the bone.
Another character by which this disease is well known
is, that at no time is the discharge from the nostrils ac-
companied by a cough. Some considerable time after the
discharge has made its appearance, the gluey substances
will be seen accompanying the mucous discharge. It is
this pus, mingling with the other gluey matter, which,
absorbed by the circulating vessels and carried to the
gland, affects it. However, in common cold the gland is
sometimes swelled, but in the real glanders the swell-