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in mind of the a Industrious Irishman/' who pulled the 

 stairs down to keep the bugs out of the bedroom. It is 

 quite sufficient if the mangers and other parts which the 

 nostril of the gland ered horse has touched, be 

 thoroughly scrubbed with hot water and strong soda, 

 and afterwards with chloride of lime ; the proportion of 

 which should be one pint and a half to a pailful of water ; 

 or carbolic acid and hot water, which should be in propor- 

 tion of half-a-pint to two gallons of water. The walls 

 should be limewashed, and all the cloths, headstalls, 

 and halters destroyed, and the iron-work painted. We 

 have already said that we cannot find a well-authenticated 

 case of cure of the glanders. Hinde says : " Glanders 

 has been cured spontaneously on a largp scale, under his 

 own inspection solely by regular and good living, a fine 

 seaside country and moderate work being the only 

 adjuncts, with such an auxiliary as Venice turpentine 

 diftused in steam up the nostrils have removed recent 

 cases of glanders, wherein the skankers were already 

 visible, the discharge foetid, and the glander hard and 

 fixed. To apply this remedy make a bran mash hot in 

 which is mixed the turpentine, attach this to the 

 horse's head by means of a nose bag, and in a quarter 

 of an hour renew the heat by means of a pailful of 

 hot water in which the bag is to be partially immersed, 

 afterwards cover the body, head, and neck, so as to 

 promote perspiration ; but if it does not come on by 

 these means, cover the body first in a blanket that 

 has been immersed in hot water and wrung out, rub 

 dry, cover up, and repeat the same daily. In all such 

 cases we have given salt in every way the patient 



