BI^feit^ES OF THE GLANDS. llf 



"If, however, remedial measures are resorted to, a pure 

 atmosphere is that which should first be tried. Glanders is 

 the peculiar disease of the stabled horse, and the preparation 

 for, or the foundatian of a cure, must consist in the perfect 

 removal of every existing cause of the malady. The horse 

 must breathe a cool and pure atmosphere, and he must be 

 turned out, or placed in a situation equivalent to it. 



"A salt marsh is, above all others, the situation for this 

 experiment, but there is much caution required. No sound 

 horse must be in the same pasture, or a neighboring one: 

 the palings or the gates may receive a portion of the mat- 

 ter, which may harden upon them, and, many months after- 

 ward, be a source of mischief; nay, the virus may cling 

 about the herbage, and empoison it. Cattle ^nd sheep 

 should not be trusted with a glandered horse, for. the ex- 

 periments are not sufficiently numerous or decided as to the 

 exemption of these animals from the contagion of glanders. 



" Supposing that glanders have made their appearance in 

 the stables of a farmer, is there any danger after he has re- 

 moved or destroyed the infected horse? Certainly there is; 

 bj^t not to the extent that is commonly supposed. There is 

 no necessity for pulling down the racks and mangers, or even 

 the stable itself, as some have done. The poison resides^ not 

 in the breath of the animal, but in the nasal discharge, and 

 that can only reach certain parts of the stable. If the man- 

 gers, and racks, and bales, and partitions are first well 

 scraped, and scoured with soap and water, and then thor- 

 oughl}'- 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 headgear 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 prevention 

 of glanders. The first and most efiTectual 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. ' 



