288 GLANDERS AND FAECY. 



by exposing tlie same for some time to a temperatme of 212° F., or 

 liiglier, either in an oven or in boiling hot water. 



As to a therapeutic treatment only a few words will be necessary. Some 

 of the most heroic medicines have been used with -s-ery doubtful results. 

 So, for instance, Professor Ercolani, in Turin, claims to have had good 

 success Avith arsenate of strychnine, but others who have made the 

 same experiments have had no success whatever. Lacazo {Revue Veter., 

 tCr., Toulouse, 1876), asserts to have been successful with large doses of 

 alcohol, but he discriminates contagious and noncontagious glanders, 

 and so no comment Avill be necessary. In former tunes cautharides were 

 considered as a remedy, but later investigations have proved them to be 

 perfectly worthless. That every kind of mercurial combination and a 

 great many sure-cure nostrums have been used and been advertised as 

 specific remedies, as in every other incurable disease, is too self-evident 

 to need any further mentioning. 



The only rational treatment of a horse or other animal, affected with 

 glanders, consists in a proper and effective apphcation, in the right place, 

 of either half an ounce of lead or five inches of steel ; and until such 

 treatment is invariably adopted, or made compulsory, there will be no 

 prospect whatever of freeing this country from this loathsome disease, 

 dangerous even to man, in Avhom, if once infected, it is just as incurable 

 as in horses. 



