230 CAUSES OF GLANDERS. 



Mr. Field, senior, Veterinary Surgeon to the 2d Life Guards, had in one 

 of his infirmary boxes at Windsor Cavalrj^ Barracks a troop horse, which he 

 felt but too confident had glanders ; and, with a view of testing the contagious- 

 ness of the disease, he turned into the box, along with the horse, a healthy 

 ass. The two animals lived together a month — eating out of the same crib, 

 and drinking out of the same pail — without the latter taking the disorder. 

 So far the experiment was satisfactory. To carry the test further, however, 

 Mr. Field inoculated the ass with matter taken from the nose of the horse. 

 The ass in due time became contaminated with glanders in its virulent form, 

 and in consequence he was, along with the horse, without further doubt or 

 demur put to death. 



Mr. Smith has related several similarly striking instances of horses that 

 have stood beside of, or been stabled with, glandered and farcied subjects, 

 escaping the disease*. 



Mr. Vines, also, has adduced strong evidence of non-contagiousness in his 

 mention of the strange immunity enjoyed for sixteen years by Mr. Monk's 

 horse in a stable inhabited by condemned subjects^. 



Still, I must repeat, these cases, — in most of which the disease, I fancy, will 

 turn out to have been glanders in its chronic or least contagious form — after 

 all, when set against those in favour of contagion, but tend to shew that the 

 chances of a sound' horse taking the disease in such a manner are little com- 

 pared with his chances of escaping the contagion. 



Of the transmission of the Contagion of Glanders 

 THROUGH the MEDIUM OF Stabling, I have had happening, in 

 my own regiment, as remarkable and convincing a demonstration as 

 probably stands on record. I entered the 1st Life Guards as vete- 

 rinary surgeon in the year 18*27. Up to 1833 not a single case of 

 glanders or farcy, or of any disease approaching thereto, had come 

 under my notice. March 14th, 1833, the regiment, then stationed in 

 the Regent's Park Barracks, was ordered away into cantonments at 

 Barnet, Whetstone, Hornsey, and Highgate, in consequence of an 

 election for members of parliament about to take place in Mary-le- 

 Bone, taking with them 27*2 horses, all supposed and believed to 

 be " effective," i. e. in good health. The regiment remained in out- 

 quarters eight days, returning on the 22d of March into the 

 barracks. The day after its return, 



* Op. Cit. p. 214. t Op. Cit. p. 215. 



