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mix with other horses, to several of which he 

 communicated the disease in the course of a few 

 months. — White s Vtterinary Art. 



The most common cause of this disease is the 

 impure air of close, ill-ventilated, damp, and 

 filthy stables, acting injuriously upon the organs 

 of respiration, destroying the constitution, de- 

 bihtating the system, rendering it susceptible to 

 the attack of disease. Neoflected catarrh, strangles, 

 &c., sometimes terminate in glanders; hard work 

 and bad provender, together with sudden changes 

 from exposure to cold and wet weather, to hot 

 stables, &c., are likewise regarded as among the 

 causes; contagion is the most common of all 

 causes, the disease being readily communicated 

 from one animal to another by it. 



" The city of Lyons, France, must always con- 

 tain a great number of glandered horses, on 

 account of the dampness of the situation and 

 climate, and it being a public market for L^xacS. 

 The garrison at Lyons generally has its share 

 of this disease. During this year the mildness 

 of the winter, and the heat of the spring and 

 summer, have prevented circumstances less favor- 

 able than usual, to the development of this 

 malady; therefore, with the exception of horses 

 from the garrison, and which had been long kept 

 in the infirmary at the barracks before they were 

 sent to us, we have had very few cases of gland- 

 ers, compared with several preceding years ; yet 

 notwithstanding these favorable circumstances, 

 we are compelled to acknowledge that it has been 

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