64 NAVIX ON THE HORSE. 



a gentleman who purchased a mare, and when riding her to 

 town, a few days after, he perceived a little mucus about 

 the nose; he got down, and pulled some grass to wipe it off: 

 and, in pulling the grass, got pricked by a thistle, and the 

 virus from the nose coming in contact with this slight punc- 

 ture, inoculated his system, and he died a miserable death, of 

 glanders. The servant girl Avho waited on him also l-^came 

 hifected, and died. A doctor, in the same vicinity, a few 

 years before, had a glandered horse. He took him to the 

 veterinarian Avith whom I studied, for treatment. But he told 

 the doctor the case was one of confirmed glanders, and that 

 he would have nothing to do with it, telling him he would as 

 lief handle a mad dog. The doctor then persuaded him to 

 give him the medicine, and he would give it himself. He did 

 so. But the doctor got his finger cut by the horse's teeth, 

 took the disease, and died. I also knew a poor man to con- 

 tract the disease by skinning an ass that died of farcy. He 

 showed both symptoms of glanders and farcy. His flesh 

 would not cleave to the bones after death. The disease is 

 much more rapid in the human than in the horse. The cases 

 I knew of did not live over ten or fifteen days. 



Treatment. — As the treatment is the great object for which 

 all our trouble, in searching out the nature, causes, and symp- 

 toms of disease, is taken, we might hope to present some- 

 thing more satisfactory in the treatment of glanders than we 

 find ourselves able to do. This is the opprohrium of the vet- 

 erinary profession. And, though we are confident that a step 

 in the right direction has been taken, in regarding glanders 

 as, from the first, a constitutional disease, thereby directing ef- 

 forts to cure it to the general system, instead of vainly endeav- 

 oring to remove it by operating on the nose, we can, as yet, give 

 but little encouragement as to the treatment, in the later stage 

 of the disease. But I must put in a plea for the unfortunate 

 animal, that he be not too hastily " condemned to the bone-yard," 

 but given a chance for his life, in the use of the measures here- 



