14 HORSE DOCTOR. 



horse has passed another when he was in the act of 

 snorting, and has become glandered. 



As for medicine, there is scarcely a dru^ to which a 

 fair trial has not been given, and many of them have 

 had a temporary reputation. The blue vitriol and the 

 Spanish fly have held out the longest. 



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

 atmosphere is that which should first be tried. 



Little that is satisfactory can be said of the prevention 

 of glanders. 



The first and most eflfectual 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. 



Glanders in the human being. — It cannot be too often 

 repeated, that a glandered horse can rarely remain 

 among sound ones without serious mischief ensuing ; 

 and, worse than all, the man who attends on that horse 

 is in danger. The cases are now becoming far too nu- 

 merous ill which the groom or the veterinary surgeon 

 attending on glandered horses becomes infected, and in 

 the majority of cases dies. It is, however, somewhat 

 more nianageable in the human being than in the 

 quadruped. Some cases of recovery from farcy and 

 glanders stand on record with regard to the human be- 

 ing, but they are few and far between. 



STRANGLES. 



It is preceded by cough, and can at first be scarcely- 

 distinguished from common cough, except that there is 

 more discharge from the nostril, of a yellowish color, 

 mixed with pus, and generally without smell. 



There is likewise a considerable discharge of ropy 

 fluid from the mouth, and greater swelling than usual 

 under the throat. 



In the attempt to swallow^ and sometimes when not 

 drinking, a convulsive cough comes on, which almost 



