56 NAVIX ox THE HORSE. 



extremely offensive, even stinking; and the hind-legs com- 

 mence to swell, sometimes the swelling of one preceding that 

 of the other a considerable time. These symptoms continue 

 to become worse and worse until the powers of life give way, 

 and death claims his long-contested victim. 



Causes. — With regard to the causes of this disease I shall 

 not greatly differ with writers generally, but I find myself 

 widely departing from the opinion of some eminent authors 

 as regards the nature and seat of the disease ; and, as I am con- 

 fident very injurious errors are inculcated on this subject, I 

 must ask the reader's indulgence, as I shall be somewhat 

 lengthy in treating of. this subject. 



The most frequent cause of glanders is, undoubtedly, bad 

 feeding, and bad stable management, and exposures of the 

 horse, by overworking, and surfeiting. The next is contagion, 

 or infection. And, another way in which it is produced, is by 

 the termination of certain other diseases, when neglected or 

 improperly treated ; and it is, as has been before remarked, 

 intimately connected with farcy, being a natural termination 

 of that disease. 



The most common opinion of this disease is expressed m 

 the following quotation from Mr. Youatt's work on the horse. 

 He says : 



''^There can he no douU that the membrane of the nose %s the orig- 

 inal seat of glanders ; that the disease is for a time purely local; 

 that the inflammation of the tubercles must proceed to suppu- 

 ration before that matter is formed on which the poisoning of 

 the constitution depends; that the whole circulation does at 

 length become empoisoned ; and that the horse is destroyed by 

 the general irritation and disease produced." 



How the distinguished author above quoted, with the accu- 

 mulated evidence of centuries before him, should have come 

 to such a conclusion, is strange. But, as I wish a fair discus- 

 sion of the question, I shall state my objection to this position, 



