250 OTHER CAUSES OF GLANDERS. 



" An innkeeper at Wakefield built some extensive stabling for his horses i 

 but, from inhabiting them too soon, he lost a great proportion of his cattle 

 from glanders. At present there are no more healthy stables in the place. 

 The immense range of stabling under the Adelphi in the Strand, whereto 

 light never enters, and the supply of fresh air is not too abundant, were for a 

 long while notoriously unhealthy, and in them many valuable horses were 

 destroyed from glanders ; but now they are filled with the finest waggon- 

 horses the metropolis or country contains, and they are fully as healthy as 

 the majority of stables. In a French journal an account is given of a cavalry 

 regiment, while quartered in a low humid situation and lodged in damp 

 stables, losing in that year thirty-one horses from glanders. They moved 

 into a dry situation and better constructed stables, and their loss the following 

 year amounted to but a single horse*." 



Formerly there existed many posting and coaching establish- 

 ments that might truly be said to hefomites for farcy and glanders : 

 now, however, that the number of these establishments is dimi- 

 nished, and that things are better ordered and managed in such as 

 remain, we fear but little in comparison about their being annoyed 

 by these diseases. Coleman would have said — and probably with 

 great amount of truth — that all this was owing to defective venti- 

 lation, drainage, &c. Un warped, however, by love for any theory 

 in particular, we ourselves would probably have attributed some 

 of the cases of the disease to contagion, and others — a few though 

 these might be — to over-exertion. Whether, however, we should 

 be correct or not in applying such causation to this particular case, 

 we have no hesitation in ranking over-exertion among the causes 

 of glanders, however low down in the catalogue it may stand, 

 because we have seen some and heard of more horses that have 

 turned farcied and glandered after severe runs in the chace. It is 

 an occurrence probably more likely to happen to an aged than to 

 a young horse. 



"In 1805, while the Second Dragoon Guards were encamped on the Cur- 

 ragh of Kildare, a very old horse was ridden throughout a very fatiguing field- 

 day, during the former part of which the weather was extremely hot, but 

 changed just as the troops returned to the lines, and continued very cold all 

 night. The regiment being ordered out again next day, the same horse was 

 mounted in the morning as usual, no indisposition having been observed in 

 him until he came to the troop parade, when a haemorrhage from both nostrils 

 was discovered. Being in the lines, I (Mr. Smith) saw him in this state, and 

 * Mr. Youatt's Veterinary Lectures in The Veterinakian for 1832. 



