226 CAUSES OF GLANDERS. 



With regard to the fact of the matter of glanders having been 

 made up into balls, and so introduced into the stomachs of a horse 

 or ass without producing the disease, a fact to which much im- 

 portance has been attached by some of our non-contagionists, it is 

 no more than in accordance with experiments of the same kind 

 that have been made with other poisons. Speedily and deadly 

 fatal as the Woorara poison is known to be, inserted in the form of 

 inoculation, Sir Benjamin Brodie found he could administer it by 

 the mouth, even in considerable quantities, without producing any 

 perceptible effect whatever. 



The Spread of Glanders from contaminated to 

 HEALTHY HoRSES, influenced as it is and naturally must be by 

 a variety of circumstances, can be proved, beyond any reasonable 

 doubt, to have on many occasions taken place. 



Professor Coleman — non-contagionist as he was in his opinions — 

 was wont to relate in his lectures a " remarkable instance," as he called it, 

 of glanders being communicated from one horse to another. The Professor 

 was sent for into a gentleman's stable to examine one of his carriage-horses 

 that had been some time unwell. He found the patient standing in his stall 

 between two others, and pronounced him glandered, and had him shot. One 

 of his other horses also had a discharge from the nostril that was nearest to 

 the glandered horse. Him he had removed. To no purpose, however ; for 

 he turned glandered, and was likewise shot. Not a great while afterwards, 

 the third horse took to discharging from the opposite nosttil — still the next 

 one to the horse that stood in the middle stall — and he also in the end proved 

 glandered. 



Mr. Selby, of Wilmington, in the month of July 1826, sent to my father 

 at Woolwich two cart-horses — a black mare, ten years old, and a grey mare, 

 about sixteen or seventeen years old — which he had purchased in the autumn 

 of the preceding year, and had worked ever since. The black mare, how- 

 ever, had had "a cold" on her since Christmas. Three weeks ago, for the 

 first time, tumours were discovered underneath the jaw. The black mare 

 proved confirmedly glandered : she had three or four chancrous ulcers upon 

 the near side. And the grey mare, who had only recently shewn any, and 

 that but trifling, flux from the nostril, was pronounced as certain to become 

 so — if not glandered already — from the circumstance of her having stood on 

 the near side of the glandered horse, without any stall or partition between 

 thorn. In the end both were destroyed. 



The Reverrm) Mr. Rasiileigh, of Soi thfleet, in the year 1821, sent 

 to my father a brown horse, for an opinion concerning the animal. The horse 

 manifested sub-acute glandcrss. He liad come out of a stable inhabited by 



