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late, leaves many a cranny for the wind to enter and sweep 

 away the deleterious fume from this badly roofed and un- 

 ceiled place. 



" The stables of the horse-dealer are hot enough, but a prin- 

 ciple of strict cleanliness is enforced, for there must be noth- 

 ing to offend the eye or nose of the customer, and there 

 glanders are seldom found; but if the stables of many of 

 our post horses and those employed on our canals are ex- 

 amined — almost too low for a tall horse to stand upright in 

 them, too dark for the accumulation of filth to be per- 

 ceived, too far from the eye of the master, ill- drained and 

 ill-paved, and governed by a false principle of economy, 

 which begrudges the labor of the man and the cleanliness 

 and comfort of the animal — these will be the very hot-beds of 

 the disease, and in many establishments it is an almost con- 

 stant resident. 



" Glanders may be produced by any thing that injures, or 

 for a length of time acts upon and weakens the vital energy 

 of this membrane. They have been known to follow a frac- 

 ture of the bones of the nose. They have been the conse- 

 quence of violent catarrh, and particularly the long-continued 

 discharge from the nostrils, of which we have spoken. They 

 have been produced by the injection of stimulating and acid 

 substances up the nostrils. Every thing that weakens the 

 constitution will generally lead to glanders. It is not only 

 from bad stable management, but from the hardships which 

 they endure, and the exhausted state of their constitution, 

 that the post and machine horses are subject to glanders, and 

 there is scarcely an inflammatory disease to which the horse 

 is subject that is not occasionally wound up and terminated 

 by the appearance of glanders. 



"Among the causes of glanders is want of regular exercise. 

 The connection, although not evident at first glance, is too 

 certain. When a horse has been worked with peculiar se- 

 verity, and has become out of spirits and falls away in flesh 

 and refuses to eat, a little rest and a few mashes would make 

 all right again ; but the groom plies him with cordials, and 



