Glanders, 149 



Here then, is an animal of the Horse tribe, still more susceptible 

 of the action of the infectious matter, than the Horse himself, and 

 yet he never becomes the subject of Farc}? or Glanders, unless he 

 be inoculated, or the poison be applied to parts, favorable to its ab- 

 sorption. ^ 



In other words he never originates the disease in his own system. 



And, if this be a true statement of the case, (which I believe few 



will be inclined to deny) the solution of the apparent paradox, will 



be a matter of no great difficulty. For, every one knows ho\V this 



pitiable animal is, in general, treated. 



Seldom, indeed, is he either housed or fed, much less cloathed or 

 cleaned ; but, bathed in his own perspiration after bard labour, i* 

 frequently turned adrift, amidst the pelting of the pitilefl storm, to 

 pick up his scanty meal of nettles and thistles, on a bleak and open 

 common. But, not to lay too much stress upon the case of asses, 

 lest one of my own weapons be turned against me, and I be accused 

 of drawing my conclusions merely from analogy, let us see how the 

 question stands, as it applies solely to Horses. Now, I have no he- 

 sitation in pronouncing positively, that for one instance of Farcy 

 or Glanders occuring amongst Horses of the peasanty and little 

 farmers of this country, and England, which scarcely ever touch corn, 

 twenty (I should be safe in saying fifty) cases occur amongst post, 

 stage, and waggon Horses, [which, though they perform severe 

 labour, are, nevertheless, highly fed, and rest on hot-beds made iu 

 stoves, that go under the title of warm comfortable stables. Nay 

 more, for though I am far from meaning to maintain, that the wani 

 of nutritious diet does not lay the animal more open to the attack of 



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