154 HORSE-TRAINING MADE EASY. 



ginning of tlie last century to discover a remedy 

 for it. — Skeavington. 



"It is a remarkable circumstance," says Mr. 

 vVhite, *' that glanders cannot be communicated 

 by applying the matter which is discharged from 

 the nose of a glandered horse to the nostrils of a 

 Bound one, unless there be an open wound or 

 sore, even though a piece of lint, soaked in the 

 matter, be put up the nostrils, and kept in contact 

 with the pituitary membrane for a short time ) or 

 even if the matter be thrown up the nostrils with 

 a syringe. But, if the smallest quantity of mat- 

 ter be applied in the way of inoculation, either 

 to the membrane of the nostrils, or to any part of 

 the body, a glanderous ulcer will be produced, 

 from which farcy buds and corded lymphatics 

 will proceed. After a few weeks the poison will 

 get into the circulation, and the horse will be 

 completely glandered. The circumstance of 

 glanders not being communicated by applying 

 matter to the nostril, enables us to account for a 

 horse escaping the disorder, as he sometimes 

 does, after being put into a glandered stable, or 

 standing by the side of a glandered horse. I am 

 incHned to believe that the disorder is more 

 readily caught by eating the glanderous matter 

 mixed with oats or hay, than by drinkins: it with 

 water, as in the former case it is so intimately 

 mixed with the food in mastication. M. St. Bell 

 placed two sound horses by a glandered horse, 

 drinking out of the same pail, and eating out of 

 the same mangrer. One of the sound horr^es wa« 



