110 THE ITINERANT HORSE PHYSICIAN 



ing water troughs and hitching posts with the 

 nasal discharges from cases of strangles. Through 

 their ignorance, I have known two quacks to 



HAVE PER50NALU 

 IN5TANCES IN WHICH A CERTAIN QUACK WILEULLY 

 INFECTED HORSES BY SMEARING WATER TR0UGH5 §S§t 

 WITH DISCHARGES FROM CASES OF STRANGLES " 



''W- 



trephine a case of glanders, thinking it a catar- 

 rhal condition, and thus exposing hundreds of 

 horses, as well as people, to infection. 



