136 ^ Qlanders. 



For, I cannot help considering- the distinctions, which he has en- 

 deavoured to establish in Glanders,, from the varieties of colour which 

 the nasal discharge may furnish, to be not merel}^ frivolous in them- 

 selves, but, in a practical point of view, utterly useless. I must 

 return, liowever, to the consideration of the invaluable fact which 

 I have glanced at^ respecting- the absence of Glanders in (he Spanish 

 part of South America, because I consider it as coming strongly,, 

 and admirably, in support of all the arguments which have been 

 advanced in this work, respecting the noxiousness of the atmosphere 

 of our stables, and the great share which it has, either in produc- 

 ing or aggravating, several of the most formidable diseases of the 

 Horse. For, on enquiry it will prove to be the case, that not only 

 in th« United States of America, but through great part of the Con- 

 tinent of India, and wherever the British System of Stable Manage- 

 n^ent has been carried, and established, there also, will be found 

 plentiful instances, of both Farcy and Glanders, 



Bill, in Spanish America, the value of the Horse, being but small, 

 art, fortunately for the animal, interferes but in a small degree in 

 his treatment, and thus he is kept, pretty nearly, in what is called, the 

 state of nature. For, the Horses of that country are neither cloathed, 

 nor crowded together in confined buildings, nor do (hey lie upon 

 such materials as are highly susceptible of the putrefactive fermen- 

 tatioK. 



These truisms, therefore, appear to me, to be inestimably im- 

 portant in every practical point of view. — They speak, in fact, vo- 

 lumes, to the eiilightened and unprejudiced, for, they shew us how 

 we may do a great deal more, than meiely cure two of the most dread- 

 ful maladies of (he Ilojse, by instructing us how io.pre'vent them. 



