THE HORSE. 171 



the past year. The first horse that can properly be said to belong to 

 the outbreak was owned by an express company here, and, with the 

 others of the company, was kept in a livery-stable. This horse was 

 taken by a quack to treat, upon the * no cure no pay ' principle ; the 

 man promising to be able to bring about the result in a few days. 

 It so happened that I was called into the same stable to see another 

 horse, and while there one of the grooms, who had recognized the 

 disease, called my attention to this horse. I examined the horse, 

 and told the owner of the stable that he should have him removed. 

 My advice was not heeded, however, and the animal was allowed to 

 linger along until it died in its box. After this had taken place, 

 the stable was subjected to disinfection, but it was too late, for four 

 other horses, which had stood near the stall of that first named, were 

 killed on account of glanders. It is perhaps worthy of mention, for 

 it shows the absolute ignorance of Dr. Quack No. 1, that upon the 

 morning that the horse of the express company died, when Dr. Q. 

 came to make his usual morning call — the horse had already been 

 drawn away to the knackers, the doctor (?) not knowing that he was 

 dead — a hostler remarked to him that ' they had taken the horse out 

 for a little ' ; to which the doctor (?) answered, ' I do not think it will 

 hurt him any. I was going to tell them that they might put him to 

 work to-day.' On the 8th of March I was called to look at a horse 



belonging to Messrs. , whose store was next to the office of the 



express company, but whose horse was kept at a different stable. 

 This horse, on the night when I first saw him, seemed to have an 

 attack of acute pleuro-pneumonia — remember, I had myself as yet 

 had no case of glanders — however, glanders unmistakably developed 

 itself in the next thirty-six hours, and the horse was killed. Follow- 

 ing this was a roan horse in the same stable in which I diagnosed 

 farcy, and ordered isolation. The owner would not believe the 

 fact, at least he said he did not, and called in the services of another 

 Dr. Quack, who said, ' The horse must have fallen through some 

 hole in the floor and made his leg sore.' This horse was then 

 sold to a Frenchman for twenty-five dollars, Quack No. 2 treat- 

 ing him for a while, and I lost sight of him, to follow him up about 

 two months later, when I was called in by a woman to see a horse 

 in a different part of the city, and found the same horse, in a mori- 

 bund condition from glanders. It was immediately killed and 

 taken away. The husband of the woman had bought this horse of 

 the above-mentioned Frenchman for thirty-five dollars some four 

 weeks previously, with the assurance that he had fallen through a 

 floor, and that that was all the trouble with him. At my instiga- 



