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inoculation, either to tlie membrane of the 

 nostrils, or to any part of the body, a glan- 

 derous ulcer will be produced, from which 

 farcy buds and corded lymphatics will pro- 

 ceed. After a short time the poison will get 

 into the circulation, and the Horse will be 

 completely glandered. The circumstance of 

 glanders not being communicated by apply- 

 ing matter to the nostrils, enables us to 

 account for a Horse escaping the disorder, as 

 he sometimes does, after being put into a 

 glandered stable, or standing by the side of a 

 glandered Horse. I have great reason to be- 

 lieve that glanders is frequently communicated 

 by accidental inoculation. Glanders can also 

 be communicated through the air by effluvia 

 issuing from the glandered Horse, in the same 

 way that putrid fever is communicated ; still 

 I knew a carrier that used to travel from 

 Deptford to London daily, who kept two 

 Horses in the same stable, one of which was 

 highly glandered, and remained so to my 

 knowledge for three years ; but the other 

 Horse never caught the infection, plainly 

 shewing there must be a susceptibility to take 

 on disease in the system. Glanders, it has 

 been said, cannot be produced by the matter 

 applied to an old wound, or ulcer ; but of this 

 I have great doubts. From this it would 

 appear, that to communicate the glanders, the 

 matter must be applied to a wound fresh 

 made, and not to a sore on which matter had 

 formed. A sound Horse has been inoculated 

 with glanderous matter, that had been mixed 

 with ten times its weight of water. This 

 produced some degree of inflammation, and a 

 small ulcer of a suspicious nature; but after 

 two or three days it got quite well. This 

 shews that glanderous matter may be so far 

 weakened by dilution with water, saliva, or 



I the watery secretion from the lower part of 

 a glandered Horse's nostrils, when he has the 

 disease in a very slight degree only, as to 

 ' render it incapable of communicating the dis- 

 ease. On the other hand, when a large 

 opening is made in the skin of a sound Horse, 

 I and a piece of tow or lint, soaked in glander- 

 I ous matter, is put into it, in the manner that 

 i rowels are inserted, the disorder is communi- 

 cated in so violent a degree, that the animal 

 is destroyed by it, generally in a few days, 

 i The same effect may be produced, if glander- 

 ous matter be mixed with a little warm 

 water, and injected into the jugular vein of a 

 sound Horse. 



A Horse affected with glanders, may in- 

 oculate himself, and thereby produce farcy. 

 Horses are frequently affected by an itching 

 when out at grass, and are apt to bite their 

 heels. By this means, the flow of matter from 

 the nostrils inoculates them, and produces 

 farcy. The possibility of this circumstance 

 taking place may be easily proved by inocu- 

 lating a glandered Horse in any part of his 

 body with some of his own matter. There 

 are many ways in which a sound Horse may 

 be accidentally inoculated with the matter of 

 glanders, for the slightest scratch in any part 

 of the body is sufficient. Horses that are 

 cleaned with a curry-comb, are very liable to 

 be scratched in those parts where the bones 

 are most prominent ; such as the inside of the 

 hock, and knee , the shank-bones, and the 

 knee. To such scratches glanderous matter 

 may be applied by the hands of the groom *, 

 after he has been examining the nose of a 



* During my studies at the Royal Veterinary College, 

 two o-rooms who had the charge of the glandered stablit'v 

 became atfected with the disease, and were obliged to iwj 

 removed into an Hospital. 



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