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his horse having caught this disease, to destroy it 

 as speedily as possible ; for, although a glandered 

 horse may be able to work for a considerable 

 time under the influence of this disorder, he will 

 find ultimately that it is a bad piece of economy 

 to keep it. Many persons who have lost horses 

 by this disease have resorted to extremes to 

 prevent a continuance of it. So.me have gone 

 so far as to pull down the stable, and others 

 have taken out all the internal fittings, putting 

 one in mind of the " Industrious Irishman,'' who 

 pulled the stairs down to keep the bugs out 

 of the bedroom. It is quite sufficient if the 

 mangers and other parts which the nostril of 

 the glandered horse has touched be thoroughly 

 scrubbed with hot water and strong soda, and 

 afterwards with chloride of lime, the proportion 

 of which should be one pint and a half to a 

 pailful of water, or carbolic acid and hot water, 

 which should be in proportion of half a pint to 

 two gallons of water. The walls should be lime- 

 washed, and all the cloths, headstalls, and halters 

 destroyed, and the iron-work painted. We have 

 already said that we cannot find a well-authenti- 

 cated case of cure of the glanders. Hinde says: 

 '' Glanders has been cured spontaneously on a 

 large scale, under his own inspection, solely by 

 regular and good living, a fine seaside and 

 country and moderate work being the only 

 adjuncts, with such an auxiliary as Venice tur- 

 pentine diffused in steam up the nostrils, have 

 removed recent cases of glanders, wherein the 

 shankers were already visible, the discharge 



