The management and treatment of the horse in the stable, field, and ...

In the Stable, Field, and on the Road. 1G1
lungs will be in a very short time studded with
tubercles, a test that the lungs have become affected
the breathing will be difficult, and a stifled grating
noise accompanies it, which is a certain prelude to death.
A common catarrah has often been mistaken for
glanders, but a little attention will soon enable any
one to perceive the distinction between the two diseases.
Catarrh is usually accompanied with fever, sore throat,
general cough, loss of appetite, and a discharge from both
nostrils, and in most cases very copious, sometimes
purulent; the glands are generally swollen on both sides
of the throat, and are moveable and hot to the touch.
The proper means being adopted all the symptoms are
abated.
Strangles have also been mistaken for glanders, and
usually affects young horses only. At first they resemble
a comon cold with a severe cough and wheezing, accom-
panied with considerable thickening and swelling between
the jawbones, the swelling becoming harder towards the
middle, a fluid can be felt in the centre, which ultimately
breaks, and a discharge flows from it. The mucous-
membrane of the nostrils is of a very red colour, and an
ample discharge continues which is mixed with pus from
nearly the commencement. The remote cause of
glanders has hitherto baffled all the members of the
veterinary art, its true history being still unknown, and
the unsatisfactory theories of medical authors throwing
no light on it. All that can be gained by the perusal of
numerous works upon this disease by past and present
authors is that the disease is highly contagious. All
authors agree as to the symptoms, and but little differ-
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