LET SLEEPING MICROBES LIE 23 



Park and Dewhurst Plates at Newmarket. 

 They arrived at Newmarket all right, but 

 the disinfectant, *' Eukotas," which I always 

 used, because I found it killed the microbes 

 without injuring the tender surface of the 

 horse's mouth if a little of It got In, did 

 not arrive as soon as the boys I had sent 

 on to clean down and disinfect the stables. 

 Now, these boys knew that there would be 

 a frightful row if I could find any dust or cob- 

 webs about the stables. So, as they had not 

 any disinfectant with them, they broke one of 

 my rules, which Is, let sleeping microbes lie, 

 unless you kill them with strong disinfectants 

 before you disturb them. They swept down 

 the stables dry — in other words, they filled 

 the air of the stable with the germs of 

 coughing, and gave my poor horses no 

 chance of avoiding them. I at once pre- 

 dicted what would happen, removed the 

 horses to other boxes across the yard, which 

 I had had meanwhile properly disinfected 

 and cleaned ; but, alas ! in five to ten days 

 every one of these horses was coughing 



