M8 AMERICAN FARMER'S HORSE BOOK. 



"Next to ventilation stands cleanliness; for the foul air 

 from the fermenting litter, urine and dung, must not only 

 be highly injurious to health generally, but irritate and pre- 

 dispose to inflammation that delicate membrane which is the 

 primary seat of the disease. If to this be added regular ex- 

 ercise, and occasionally green meat during the summer, and 

 carrots in the winter, we shall have stated all that can be 

 done in the way of prevention. 



''^Glanders in the human being. — It can not be too often re- 

 peated that a glandered horse can rarely remain among 

 sound ones without serious mischief ensuing ; and, more than 

 all, the man who attends on that horse is in danger. The 

 cases are now becoming far too numerous ih which the 

 groom, or veterinary surgeon attending on a glandered 

 horse, becomes infected, and, in the majority of cases, dies. 

 It is, however, 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." 



While we give to his descriptions high praise for their 

 general accuracy and clearness, we are not so despairing as 

 this distinguished author seems to be. We do not propose 

 to leave the unfortunate owner with the glandered horse 

 upon his hands, and with such poor comfort as the unquali- 

 fied statement that glanders is incurable. Nor can we sub- 

 scribe to the sentiment " that the entire list of drugs have 

 been tried, and have proved entirely ineffectual," or that 

 "little that is satisfactory can be said of a preventive of 

 glanders." The Englishman possesses the knowledge, but 

 the Yankee goes further, and applies it. The Englishman 

 has the science, the Yankee the invention. 



In this case, as in regard to most other diseases described 

 in this work, our remedies and treatment are exclusively. 

 our own. We believe that we have discovered a sure anti- 

 dote to glanders, remarkably simple, and easily procured, 

 unknown to the practitioners of the Old World, highly 

 educated and scientific as they undoubtedly are. As a pre- 



