152 HORSE-TRAINING MADE EASY. 



your s<ables, and let there be no animal poison 

 lurking there from air that has been breathed 

 over and over again, and I will answer for it, 

 your other horses are safe enough; there is not 

 one horse in a thousand that catches glanders/ 

 The gentleman was somewhat surprised, and ex- 

 pressed a little doubt about the matter; but, the 

 young theorist producing chapter and verse in 

 elucidation of his point, he sufiered himself to be 

 over-persuaded ; and in less than a twelvemonth 

 he had not a sound horse upon his farm/' — 

 Youatt's Lectures at the University of London^ 

 1832. 



The glanders is a disease of the horse tribe, com- 

 municable to man and other animals. It is chiefly 

 manifested by unhealthy suppuration of the mu- 

 cous membrane of the nasal cavities, and pustular 

 eruptions on the skin, and unhealthy abscesses 

 in the lymphatic system. — Druitt's Surgery. 



The instant that there is any appearance of it, 

 the horse should be immediately removed to a 

 place by itself, as this malady is exceedingly 

 infectious; and from want of due caution, when 

 even a suspicion is entertained, the most dis 

 astrous consequences have been the result.— 

 Brown' s Farriery. 



Glanders. — K disease in horses, attended 

 with a copious discharge of mucus from the nose. 

 It is needless to endeavor to describe the various 

 attempts which have been made to cure this 

 almost invariably fatal disorder. But the farmer 

 must avoid a common error of confounding ulcer- 



