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scrupulously directed the attention, to the state of the appetite, and 

 the tone and strength of the digestive organs. 



It may be proper to remark in this place, having recommended 

 the use of the same internal remedies in Glanders, as in Farcy, that 

 I do not consider it necessary to continue them for more tlian two or 

 three weeks, or at most a month. 



For, it is certain that the good effects of medicine are less palpa- 

 ble and decisive in Glanders, than in Farcy ; and in all mild and 

 chronic cases of Glanders, the general constitution appears to suffer 

 infinitely less inroad from the disease, than in the mildest cases of 

 Farcy. 



Now, though by far the greater number of instances of Glanders 

 which we meet with, are those that occur in Horses which origittatc 

 the disease in their own system ; yet, very great ravages are often 

 made in stables, by the contagion being spread from one diseased 

 Horse, to many sound ones. And the losses which have frequently 

 occured in this way, have given rise to many exaggerated, groundless 

 fears, and superstitious notions, respecting the nature and diffusive- 

 ness of the infectious matter, Indeed, many well-informed Persons 

 have appeared to be fully impressed with the conviction that the 

 contagion disseminated itself through the atmosphere, and might be 

 communicated to a sound Horse through that medium. This opi- 

 nion, however, has long been known to be erroneous by Veterinary 

 Surgeons, and it is now pretty generally understood, and admitted, 

 that nothing less than the actual application of the contagious mat- 

 ter, to some part of a sound Horse, that has the capacity of absorp- 

 tion, will prove the means of communicating the disease. But, I 

 have known several instances of proprietors of Glandered HorseSj 



