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sliglitest suspicion. A glandered stallion neighed 

 at a mare that was separated from him by a 

 double hedge and a deep lane; the virus was 

 wafted across by the wind, and she became dis- 

 eased, and died. It is impossible for any one to 

 say, except there be some plain and manifest 

 cause for the generation of the disease, that any 

 horse did not receive it by infection. There 

 would be a degree of presumption in the assertion 

 which the calm inquirer after truth should not 

 display. The opinion of our ancestors, from time 

 out of date, had taught us to beware of glanders 

 as a contagious as well as a fatal disease. Let us 

 not, without incontestable proof, abandon that 

 which for ages was never doubted. There is not 

 a circumstance that has been productive of half 

 so much loss to the agriculturist, and the pro- 

 prietor of horses, as this too frequently and too 

 positively repeated assertion of the non-con- 

 tagiousness of glanders. Many thousands of 

 pounds would not cover the annual loss. A case 

 occurred about two years ago, and not a very 

 great way from this metropolis. A gentleman 

 had a team of farm-horses, almost unrivalled for 

 activity and strength. One of them exhibited 

 symptoms of incipient glanders. A newly arrived 

 young veterinarian was consulted as to the pro- 

 priety of preventing all further mischief, and 

 cutting short the affair, by destroying the dis- 

 eased animal. 'Oh! by no means,' said he; 

 * there is not the danger about glanders which 

 some foolish people imagine ; you well ventilat« 



