In the Stable, Field, and on the lload. 1GB 



caution was taken and everything done for him that 

 medical science could suggest, he died in a few days after 

 suffering untold agony." Numerous other cases can be 

 quoted of men dying of this malignant disease, but the 

 two cases above are enough to show how necessary it is 

 to proceed with the utmost caution, if it is only expected 

 that a horse is inflicted with glanders. The remote 

 cause of glanders is we fear to be found in ill-ventilated 

 and badly drained stables ; there the ammonia from the 

 urine fills the whole atmosphere, which being constantly 

 inhaled ultimately produces a poisonous effect upon the 

 lungs, caused by an undue quantity of ox}^gen being 

 inhaled ; besides the constant irritation which it must 

 naturally produce upon that delicate portion of the 

 mucous membrane, which is the organ of smell, it 

 induces the formation of those tubercles which once 

 formed can never be eradicated. We find that glanders 

 almost always breaks out in ill-ventilated stables, and 

 which are likewise kept too hot. Fracture of the nasal 

 bone has been said to produce it in some few instances, 

 as well as a long continued and inveterate catarrah with 

 a constant and irritating discharge from the nostrils. We 

 find that in the lofty w ell-aired stables of gentlemen this 

 disease is comparatively little known, and when it does 

 shew itself in such it has in all probability been intro- 

 duced by some fresh importation to the stud of one or 

 more horses previously affected. In such a case all the 

 animals in the stable may catch the malady, as 

 glanders is well known to be highly contagious. In 

 many of the crowded and ill-aired stables of London 

 and other large towns this disease is but too often an 



