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catch a cold than an old one, for the same reason, should he go 

 within the reach of the exciting causes of glanders, he may be 

 considered as especially predisposed to that disease. Out of forty 

 cases of farcy and glanders occurring in the Ordnance, under the 

 superintendence of my father, and, latterly, of myself, the ages of 

 which happen to be registered, one was three-years-old, one 

 four-years-old, four five-years-old, six in their sixth year, six in 

 their seventh, six in their eighth, five in their ninth, eleven ten- 

 years-old and upwards. Consequently, so far as this brief account 

 goes, the adult and middle ages appear to suffer most from the 

 disease. 



Certainly, at no age are horses to be regarded as exempt from 

 taking glanders. Latour relates the case of a foal that exhibited 

 discharge from the nose and enlarged glands under the throat at 

 its birth, which, in ten days afterwards, was followed by ulcera- 

 tion. LeGAND, the V.S. to the Tenth (French) Chasseurs, has also 

 given, in the VETERINARIAN for 1828, an account of a glandered 

 mare that brought forth a foal free from disease at birth, but which 

 eight days afterwards commenced running at both nostrils, and on 

 the sixth day after that (the fourteenth from its birth) died from suf- 

 focation. A horse belonging to the Artillery, destroyed for glanders 

 in the year 1816, was twenty-four years old. Another, a very 

 fine, old, milk-white horse, a great favourite with Colonel Quist, 

 at that day in command of the Riding-House Department at 

 Woolwich, was shot on account of glanders in 1818, after a 

 servitude under the Colonel of sixteen years, and being supposed 

 to have completed the twenty-fifth year of his age. Aged horses 

 labouring under chronic disease of the lungs are very apt to have 

 glanders and farcy break out and put an end to their days : indeed 

 in such subjects it almost appears as one of the ordinary modes of 

 terminating life. 



The following statistic of a French cavalry regiment, which we 

 glean from D'Arboval*, is instructive on this head. Out of 134 

 horses dead from glanders, only five had not attained their fifth 

 year ; sixteen being between the ages of five and six, thirty -one 

 between those of six and seven, twenty-seven between seven and 



* DicTioNNAiRE Veterinaire; under article '•'■ Morce.'' 



