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thus ridiculously and falsely explained, that 

 glanders is not contagious. One point, however, 

 is established, I think, — that glanders is far more 

 contagious than many have supposed; Mr. 

 Turner's mare destroyed four of her companions. 

 The poor Widow at Paddington had her stable 

 perfectly emptied by the disease ; and I will ven- 

 ture to say, that there is not a district throughout 

 the kingdom, in which some farmer, by the loss 

 of a considerable proportion, or the greater part 

 of his team, has not had sufficient proof of the 

 contagiousness of glanders. The cause of this 

 doubt with regard to the frequent communication 

 of the disease by inoculation, seems to have arisen 

 from ignorance of its insidious nature. When 

 glanders appears, and the horse has, for several 

 weeks or months, scarcely been exposed to the 

 possibility of contagion, it has at once been con- 

 cluded that the disease was generated in him by 

 Bome assigned or unknown recent cause. It has 

 now, however, been proved to us that the disease 

 may exist and may be communicated to others, 

 when, for many months, there has been nothing 

 to excite suspicion in the mind of the groom or 

 the owner; and when the candid veterinary sur- 

 geon acknowledges, that, had not the circum- 

 stances been pointed out to him, it would probably 

 have escaped his observation. The truth of the 

 matter is then, that every horse that passes 

 through a fair, or is baited at an inn, or even 

 travels the common public road, may be infected 

 without the rider's or owner's knowledge oi 



