152 Glanders. 



who were actuated by ill-gTOunded apprehensions respecting the nature 

 of the contagion, and who thereby incurred very heavy and unne- 

 cessary expence, by pulling down and burning the racks, mangers, 

 and the rest of the wood-work of the stable. Now, the contagious 

 matter may be effectually got rid of, by the following cheap and effi- 

 cacious means. 



Let the whole of the wood-work, and especially every part that 

 the Horse's nose could come in contact with, be well soaked with 

 boiling water, and afterwards accurately scraped, and then scoured 

 with a hard brush, sand, and potash. This operation being over, 

 and the wood being dry, let two or three coats of limewash be laid 

 on hot, taking care to use no other lime for the purpose, than such 

 as has been obtained fresh-burnt from the kiln. 



The walls and ceiling of the stable should also get a coat or two 

 of hot limewash ; not with the view of destroying the Glanderous 

 infection, but, for the purpose of ridding the stable of one of the 

 sources from which it springs. 



The linings of saddles, all articles of cloathing, and every thing 

 of that kind which may, by possibility, have come in contact with 

 the infectious matter, should be washed two or three times over. — 

 halters should be burnt, bridles and saddles scrupulously cleansed 

 repeatedly, with potash and hot water, and bits, and all metallic 

 implements should be put into the fire and heated red hot. The old 

 litter should be completely removed, and it might be a useful precau- 

 tion, to wash the pavement of the stable with a birch broom and se- 

 veral buckets of water. If these precautions be used, no fear need be 

 e«itertained of any infection remaining in the stable, nor will fumi- 

 gations of any sort be either useful, or necessary to be had recourse to. 



