146 HORSE-TKAINING MADE EASY. 



as rebellious to treatment as ever. Our means 

 of cure have always possessed too little power 

 seeing that when ulceration of the pituita*^ 

 (of the nose) membrane begins to appear, the 

 lungs and constitution of the animal have under 

 gone a modification which it is diflScult to remove. 



" The greater part of the animals that have 

 gone from us, apparently cured of glanders, have 

 speedily relapsed when they have been subjected 

 to hard work, or have been exposed to neglect or 

 privation." — Extract from the Report of the 

 Veterinary College of Lyons, 1834 and 1835. 



Mr. W. Percival, in his " Hippopathology," 

 gives us the following facts as the result of his 

 own experience :- - 



1. " That farcy and glanders, which constitute 

 the same disease, are propagated through the 

 medium of stabling, and this we believe to be 

 the more usual way in which diseases are com- 

 municated from horse to horse. 



2. " That infected stabling may harbor and 

 retain the infection for months, or even years; 

 and although by thoroughly cleansing and mak- 

 ing use of disinfecting means, the contagion ma^ 

 be destroyed, yet it would not be wise to occupy 

 such stables immediately after such supposed or 

 alleged disinfection. 



8. " That the virus, or poison of glanders, may 

 lie for months in a state of incubation in the 

 horse's constitution before the disease breaks 

 out. Of this we have had most positive evidence. 



4. " That when a stable of horses becomes 



