Glanders

a disease among horses, indicated by a discharge of purulent matter from one or both nostrils, with a hard enlargement of the submaxillary glands. In acute glanders the discharge, by its copiousne , impedes respiration and ultimately produces suffocation. The disease is highly infectious, and may even be communicated to man by the purulent matter coming in contact with any part where the skin is broken. The disease is rarely if ever cured.