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stroyed, and was positively assured by the proprietor of the horses and his 

 groom that there had been no possibility of intercourse between them ; and 

 that they had, in fact, never been near the glandered horse, and that any thing 

 like contact or application of matter was out of the question. After this de- 

 claration, I was obliged to admit and to consider that the farcy must have had 

 its origin from some other source than contagion, and advised that Mr. Vines' 

 plan of treatment should be adopted. The gentleman now asked me to walk 

 with him to a field at some little distance from his house, in order to see a 

 very fine hunter that he supposed had taken a cold some time ago, and which 

 had left an enlargement under his jaw, which he should like to have removed ; 

 at the same time remarking, that there was not much the matter with him, for 

 he was in as good health and spirits as a horse could be. I found the horse 

 full of flesh and spirits, but with an enlargement of the size of a pigeon's egg 

 firmly attached to the lower jaw, and a discharge, but not a profuse one, 

 firom the nostril of the same side. The horse had been in the same state for 

 three months The case was now unravelled ; for although this horse had 

 not been kept in the same stable with the subject of the first case, still there 

 were frequent opportunities of communication ; they were watered often 

 from the same bucket, and the same brushes, &c. made use of in dressing 

 them : in fact, the first case was not supposed to be glandered till shortly 

 before I saw him, and no very strict quarantine had been enforced. In May, 

 the hunter (with the enlarged gland and nasal discharge then upon him) had 

 been turned into the same pasture with the young horses, and they were 

 kept together until the young horses were removed in consequence of their 

 having become diseased. Treatment was of no avail, and in six weeks the 

 young horses were decidedly glandered. A professional friend who saw them 

 agreed with me in opinion that it was putting their owner to useless expense 

 to continue the treatment any longer, and they were destroyed. At this time 

 the constitutional symptoms shewed themselves in the hunter ; ulceration 

 and bleeding from the nose came on, farcy supervened, and this very valuable 

 horse, for which 150 guineas had been refused, was consigned to destruction. 

 The value of the three horses mentioned was at least £400, and T think there 

 can be no doubt that in them glanders icas j^ropagated hy contagion.'' 



" How often have I heard it affirmed," says Leblanc*, arguing in favour of 

 contagion, " by the proprietor of horses, that his stud has lived in the same 

 stable, and been fed and groomed and worked alike for years, and never have 

 had any glanders or farcy break out among them until an infected horse 

 entered his establishment." — " Not only," continues Leblanc, " have I heard 

 tliis a hundred times, but I am myself convinced of the truth of such state- 

 ments; and I am acquainted with a great number of veterinarians who have 

 been witnesses to parallel occurrences. And this observation applies to 

 glanders in all its stages and varieties" (p. 66). And in another place (p. 68) 

 the same excellent authority follows this strong expression of his own opinions 



* Op. Cit. at page 217. 



