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It is easily communicated either by inoculation 

 or imbibition : its contagiousness, however, is very 

 doubtful, as sound horses have been known to stand 

 for years in the same stables with glandered ones 

 without contracting the disease ; indeed, sound and 

 glandered horses have been known to work together 

 without the disease being communicated. 



Common causes of the disease are overwork, not a 

 sufficient quantity of nutritious food, debility, and foul, 

 close stables. 



Where the precaution laid down at the end of the 

 article on " Strangles " has been observed, and there is 

 no longer a doubt but that the disease is of a more 

 serious nature than that of strangles, the horse should 

 be returned to the vendor, the chance of effecting a cure 

 being very small ; besides, there is danger of the attend- 

 ant becoming inoculated, the expense of promoting 

 the cure is heavy, and the time that will elapse before 

 the horse is sound and fit for work is considerable. 



Glanders is seldom accompanied by any cough, but 

 one nostril is generally, in the early stages, affected, there 

 being a running from the nose of a glandered horse of a 

 more glue-like or colloid nature than that in strangles : 

 and it is useful to know that while the matter that 

 runs from the nose in the former disease sinks in water, 

 that which flows in strangles and cold, floats. 



Until the disease has made some progress, the horse 

 appears to be in good health, and his eyes bright and 



