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o!ie tliat had recently been 5>lK)t on uccounl of glanders ; and two others, 

 living in the same stable, subsequently took the disease. 



General Sir J. M'Cleod, of the Royal Artlllery, had a horse become 

 glandered in his stable, which was instantly, on its discovery, removed. Five 

 weeks afterwards, a brown stallion that had stood in the next stall to him, 

 who had on no previous occasion shew^n the slightest ill-health, was removed 

 in consequence of an ulcer having a healthy aspect making its appearance in 

 the near nostril. The ulcer healed while in the injBrmary, and the horse was 

 thought to be recovering, when, a week afterwards, the patient was suddenly 

 attacked with excessive pain and lameness in one hind leg : so painful was it, 

 he refused even to place it on the ground. Three days after this attack the 

 septum nasi, on the same side as before, manifested foul and spreading ulcer- 

 ation, and farcy declared itself in various parts of the body. 



Mr. Turner's Case of "Insidious Glanders," related at page 189, 

 tends to the establishment of the same point — the propagation of glanders 

 from horse to horse. The black hackney mare Mr. Turner had condemned 

 as glandered, and that was doomed to slaughter, was purchased by a farrier 

 for three pounds, who subsequently was said to have " nearly cured" her. 

 K month afterwards, Mr. Turner was examining some post horses in the very 

 stable where the " nearly cured" mare had been standing, and found two of 

 them glandered and two farcied ; and yet this stable, for many a year before, 

 had never harboured a case either of glanders or farcy. This led to another 

 examination of the black hackney mare. She was precisely in the same state 

 in which she was when Mr. T., had pronounced upon her case before. And 

 what rendered the affair so much easier of unravelment was, that the first 

 horse that failed was her own partner. 



Mr. Hales, V.S., Oswestry, whose " faith in contagion is not so strong 

 as to believe some of the extraordinary accounts that are given of glanders 

 being caught in this way" — but whose experience has " fully convinced" him 

 " that the disease may be readily communicated by a glandered horse being 

 stabled with others, or kept at grass in the same pasture with them," sent 

 the following plain and convincing statement of facts to The Veterinarian 

 for 1834:— 



"In February 1832, I was sent for to give my opinion on the case of a 

 horse supposed to be glandered. I felt no hesitation about the matter ; and, 

 as the horse had been diseased for several months, he was shortly afterwards 

 destroyed. In the latter end of June in the same year, I received a letter 

 from the gentleman, the owner of the above-named horse, again requesting 

 my attendance at his house. I found that my patients were two very fine 

 four-years old horses that had farcy ulcerations and swellings upon the ex- 

 tremities : the disease had been observed for two or three weeks, and the 

 horses prescribed for by a veterinarian of the neighbourhood. Knowing the 

 previous case of glanders, I very strictly inquired whether there had been any 

 comnmnication between these young horses and the one that had been de- 



