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clear ; but it is prudent not to place too much reliance 

 upon this absence of symptoms. The moment that you 

 have any grounds for suspicion, procure a donkey or 

 some other animal of little value even a rabbit and 

 let him be inoculated with the matter ; a few hours 

 will then decide whether the disease is or is not 

 present. Should glanders be unmistakably discovered, 

 the sooner both animals are destroyed the better. 



The inoculation of the donkey with the suspicious 

 matter is not an inhuman act ; for it is only the possible 

 sacrifice of one life, to ensure the preservation of we 

 know not how many. Even the lives of the attendants 

 are at stake, as it is well known that the reception of 

 glandered matter in the slightest scratch or abrasion 

 of the skin is almost certain to terminate fatally. 



Although the difference between cold, strangles, 

 and glanders is sufficiently marked to be generally 

 distinguished, yet no description of them will render it 

 safe for the uninitiated to decide with certainty which 

 disease it is. 



The best plan is to put alone by themselves all horses 

 afflicted with strangles or severe cold in the head, par- 

 ticularly if they have been recently purchased : this 

 will, at all events, prevent any chance of glanders, 

 if present, being communicated to the other horses. 



It is hardly necessary to add that a glandered horse 



is UNSOUND. 



