166 The Management and Treatment of the Horse, 



could take it in its food and water, and wash its nose 

 and legs with salt and water. With the same view we 

 hear of sulphate of iron being given in tiie water, the 

 pail being suspended in the stable for the animal to 

 drink at pleasure. I have given the above upon the 

 authority of Mr Hinde, but w T e have known it tried 

 without effect. Whether this loathsome and fatal 

 disease has its origin in the deteriorated atmosphere of 

 stables is a problem that has not yet been solved, there 

 is little doubt, however, that a strong preventitive is 

 found in a clean, cool, well-aired stable, and exposing 

 the horse as much as possible to the influence of the 

 atmosphere. The glanders is unknown among the 

 Arabian horses, in South America, and in Circassia, 

 where horses are not confined in stables. As a word of 

 caution to all my readers who may have to buy horses 

 at fairs from dealers of whom they know nothing, it 

 is necessary they should have their eyes open because 

 by infamous trickery they too frequently use means 

 to deceive the purchaser. Tt is a well-known fact 

 that if a glandered horse is galloped hard the increased 

 action of the lungs in breathing will thoroughly drive 

 the mucous substance out of the nostrils, and to make 

 it continue dry for a time they blow up the diseased 

 nostril (the left) powdered allum, or white vitrol, but 

 a little attention will enable anyone to see that the 

 animal is in pain and will make ineffectual attempts to 

 sneeze. The foetid smell, so different from any other 

 discharge, will convince even the inexperienced person 

 that the horse is glandered. 



A favourite trick of the horse dealer is to gallop the 

 horse in the morning before brinedno" it to the fair. 



