158 The Management and Treatment of the Horse, 



GLANDERS. 



Of all the diseases that are incidental to the horse, 

 there is none to compare to this most malignant and 

 most to be dreaded in a steed. The instant there is any 

 appearance of it the horse should be removed to a place 

 by itself, as this malady is extremely infectious, and from 

 want of due caution whenever a suspicion of it is enter- 

 tained, the most disastrous consequences may result. 

 Although glanders has been known to mankind for 

 upwards of 1800 years and the symptoms well described, 

 yet it is lamentable to state that up to the present hour 

 no cure has been found for it. No disease to which the 

 horse is subject has had more experiments made with it, 

 and all have proved equally unsatisfactory, and although 

 many cases are reported of horses having been cured of 

 glanders, yet when the same treatment adopted has 

 been applied to an undoubted case of glanders it has 

 always turned out a disappointment. Many men have 

 also lost their lives by becoming inocculated with the 

 foetid pus from the nostril, and fearful indeed is the 

 death of a man from this loathsome disease. Medical 

 remedies have alleviated the severity of this disease for 

 a time and arrested its progress, but it is certain to 

 return and prove fatal at last, and it is doubtful if ever a 

 case of true glanders was ever cured. There are various 

 diseases which in their early stages have much the same 

 appearance as glanders, and therefore it is necessary to 

 watch them narrowly, as of course perfect recovery may 

 follow. The very first symptoms oi glanders is a constant 

 discharge from the left nostril of mucus, clearer and of a 

 lighter colour than in common cold or catarrh, and more 



