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only reacli certain parts of tlie stable. If the mangers, and racks, and 

 bales, and partitions, are first well scraped, and scoured with soap and 

 water, and then thoroughly washed with a solution of the chloride of lime 

 (one pint of the chloride to a pailful of water), and the walls are lime- 

 washed, and the head-gear burned, and the clothing baked or washed, and 

 the pails newly painted, and the iron-work exposed to a red heat, all 

 danger will cease. 



Little that is satisfactory can be said of the p-cvention of glanders. 



The first and most effectual mode of prevention will be to keep the 

 stables cool and well ventilated, for the hot and poisoned air of low and 

 confined stables is one of the most prevalent causes of glanders. 



Next to ventilation comes good and efl&cient drainage. The tu-ine 

 should never be allowed to lie on the surface, but have ready means of 

 escape through ample aud well-arranged di*ains ; for the foul air from the 

 fermenting litter, and urine, and dung, must not only be highly injurious 

 to health generally, but irritate and predispose to inflammation that deli- 

 cate membrane which is the prixaary seat of the disease. If to this be 

 added regular exercise, and occasional green meat during the summer, and 

 carrots in the winter, we shaU have stated all that can be done in the way 

 of prevention. 



Glanders in the human being. — It cannot be too often repeated, that a 

 glandered horse can rarely remain among sound ones without serious 

 mischief ensuing ; and, worse than all, the man who attends on that horse 

 is in danger. The cases are now becoming far too numerous in which 

 the groom or the veterinary surgeon attending on glandered horses becomes 

 infected, and in the majority of cases dies. It is, however, somewhat 

 more manageable in the human being than in the quadruped. Some cases 

 of recovery from farcy and glanders stand on record with regard to the 

 human being, but they are few and far between. 



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Farcy is intimately connected with glanders ; they will run into each 

 other, or theu' symptoms will mingle together, and before either arrives 

 at its fatal termination the other will generally appear. An animal 

 inoculated with the matter of farcy mil often be afflicted Avith glanders, 

 while the matter of glanders -will frequently produce farcy. They ai-e 

 different types of the same disease. There is, however, a very material 

 difference in their symptoms and progress, and this most important one 

 of all, that while glanders is incurable, farcy, in its early stage and mild 

 form, may be successfully treated. 



While the capillary vessels of the arteries are everywhere employed i)i 

 building up the frame, the absorbents are no less diligently at work in 

 selecting and carrying away every useless or worn-out jDortion or part 

 of it. There is no surface — there is no assignable spot on which thou- 

 sands of these little mouths do not open. • In the discharge of their duty, 

 they not only remove that which is become useless, and often that which 

 is healthy, but that which is poisonous and destructive. They open upon 

 the surfiice of every glanderous chancre. They absorb a portion of the 

 virus which is secreted by the ulcer, and as it passes along these Httle 

 tubes, they suffer from its acrimonious quality ; hence the corded veins, as 

 they are called by the farrier, or, more properly, the thickened and in- 

 flamed absorbents following the course of the veins. 



At certain distances in the course of the absorbents are loose duplica- 

 tures of the lining membrane, forming valves, which are pressed against 

 the side of the vessel and permit the fluid to pass in a direction towards 

 the chest, but belly out and impede or arrest its progress from the chest. 



