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^^The main cause is contagion — I now ap 

 proacli, gentleinen, not without hesitation, but 

 without fear, the grand cause of Glanders — Con- 

 tagion. I advisedly call it 'the grand cause/ 

 for I believe that I shall be able to render it pro- 

 bable that glanders arises oftener from contagion 

 than from any other source. I know that our 

 continental neighbors deny the contagiousness of 

 glanders altogether; but they do not, and can- 

 not deny that the disease does follow contact, and 

 often mere proximity of situation. When they 

 tell me that it is not the disease that is commu- 

 nicated, but a mere predisposition, a greater 

 aptitude in the frame generally, or some part of 

 it, to be affected by the usual causes of glanders, 

 T cannot but regard this as the merest quibbling. 

 1 take the broad fact, that a glandered horse 

 being inadvertently admitted into a stable, some 

 of his companions, after awhile, become glandered 

 too. The stable had previously, and for many 

 years — nay, from the very time of its erection — 

 been free from the disease, and no alteration, 

 whatever, has taken place in the system of 

 management : a glandered horse finds his way 

 thither, in a few months the whole team is 

 glandered. When in the face of this, a person 

 tells me that it was not the disease which was 

 communicated, but a facility of being acted upon 

 by certain agents, I regard it as a species of quib- 

 bling, unworthy of a scientific pathologist ; and 

 [ deprecate the injury which may be done to the 

 agricultural community by the broad assertion, 

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