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stabling was built for the troops at Hythe, and inhabited be 

 fore the walls were perfectly dry, many of the horses, that 

 had been removed from an open, dry and healthy situation, 

 became affected with glanders, but some time having passed 

 over, the horses in those stables were as healthy as the others, 

 and glanders ceased to appear. An innkeeper at Wakefield, 

 built some extensive stabling for his horses, and, inhabiting 

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

 glanders. There are not now more healthy stables in the 

 place. The immense range of stables under the Adelphi, in 

 the Strand, where the light never enters, and the supply of 

 fresh air is not too abundant, were for a long time notori- 

 ously unhealthy, and many valuable horses were destroyed 

 by glanders ; but now they are filled with the finest wagon 

 and dray horaes that the metropolis or country contains, and 

 they are fully as healthy as in the majority of stables above 

 ground. 



" There is one more cause to be slightly mentioned — heridi- 

 tary predisposition. This has not been sufiiciently estimated, 

 with regard to the question now under consideration, as well 

 as w^ith respect to every thing connected with the breeding 

 of the horse. There is scarcely a disease that does not run 

 in the stock. There is that in the structure of various parts, 

 or their dispositions to be affected by certain influences, 

 which perpetuates in the offspring the diseases of the sire; 

 and thus contraction, opthalmia, roaring, are decidedly he- 

 reditary, and so is glanders. M. Dupuy relates some decisive 

 cases. A mare, on dissection, exhibited every appearance 

 of glanders ; her filly, who resembled her in form and in 

 her vicious propensities, died glandered at six years old. A 

 second and a third mare, and their foals, presented the same 

 fatal proof that glanders are hereditary. 



" Glanders are highly contagious. The farmer can not be 

 too deeply impressed with the certainty of this. Consider- 

 ing the degree to which this disease, even at the present 

 day, often prevails, the legislature would be justified in in- 



