144 Glanders, 



derous swellings under the jaw, do in like mannerj uniformly disap* 

 pear, although no external application be made to them. Now, with 

 respect to the time necessary to be allowed, in order to give, what 

 may be termed, a fair trial to our attempt, to cure the disease, this 

 must depend on such a variety of circumstances as it is almost im- 

 possible either to enumerate or take into account ; and one's advice 

 on this head, must of course, in every particular instance, be go- 

 verned accordingly. 



But, in every case, without exception, where the value of the 

 Horse is but small, if a month, or, at most, six weeks, have been 

 spent in endeavouring to cure the disease, with little or no alteration 

 for the better, and more especially if the Horse have been in the 

 open air, during that period, it will uniformly be the best policy to 

 destroy the animal. In fact we must endeavour to balance the pro- 

 bability of recovery against the certainty of expence, and the risque 

 of propagating the contagion, in the interval, to other Horses. If 

 a man, for instance, have a field where sheep or oxen only are kept, 

 (which are not susceptible of the contagion of Glanders, he may, in 

 the instance of a very valuable or a very favourite Horse, take the 

 chance of a run at grass for six, nine, or even twelve months. But 

 though a few instances do occur of Horses recovering from Glanders, 

 and remaining sound after these long runs at grass, yet, it must be 

 confessed that they are so very rare, as to justify the attempt upon 

 no other principle, than that of the forlorn hope. For, it has too 

 frequently happened, in several cases, Avhere all the morbid symp- 

 toms had disappeared, under this plan of treatment, that they have 

 returned in a few weeks after bringing back the Horse to the stable, 

 and it has become necessary to destroy the animal ultimately.— 



