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terfering, by some severe enactments, as it has done in the 

 case of small-pox in the human subject. 



^' The early and marked symptoms of glanders is a discharge 

 from the nostrils of a peculiar character, and if that, even be- 

 fore it becomes prevalent, is rubbed on a wound, or on a mu- 

 cous surface, as the nostrils, it will produce a similar disease. 

 If the division between two horses were sufficiently high to 

 prevent all smelling and snorting at each other, and contact 

 of every kind, and they drank not out of the same pail, a 

 sound horse might live for years, uninfected, by the side of 

 a glandered one. The matter of glanders has been mixed 

 up into a ball, and given to a healthy horse, without effect. 

 Some horses have eaten the hay left by those that were 

 glandered, and no bad consequence has followed, while 

 others have been speedily infected. The glanderous matter 

 must come in contact with a wound, or fall on some mem- 

 brane thin and delicate, like that of the nose, and through 

 which it may be absorbed. It is easy, then, accustomed as 

 horses are to be crowded together, and to recognize each 

 other by the smell — eating out of the same manger, and 

 drinking from the same pail — to imagine that the disease 

 may be very readily communicated. One horse has passed 

 the other when he has been in the act of snorting, and has 

 become glandered. Some fillies have received the infection 

 from the matter blown by the wind across the lane, when 

 a glandered horse in the opposite field has claimed acquaint- 

 ance by neighing or snorting. It is almost impossible for an 

 infected horse to remain long in a stable with others with- 

 out irreparable mischief. 



*' If some persons underrate the danger, it is because the dis- 

 ease may remain unrecognized in the infected horse for some 

 months, or even years, -and, therefore, when it appears, it ia 

 attributed to other causes, or to after inoculation. Ko glan- 

 dered horse should be employed on any farm, nor be per* 

 mitted to work on any road, or even to pasture on any field. 

 Mischief may be so easily and extensively effected, that the 

 public interest demands that every infected animal should 

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