ABC OF THE HORSE 105 



infect the animal. The moral is 

 obvious. Inoculation with glanders- 

 tainted blood has been found to fail 

 more often than it succeeds in trans- 

 mitting the disease. . . . This power 

 of infecting the atmosphere of a stable 

 seems to be possessed by glandered 

 animals which show no outward 

 symptom of the disease, as well as those 

 which have a running from the nose. In 

 fact it has not infrequently happened 

 that such horses have, without contact, 

 infected healthy animals, into whose 

 near vicinity they have been brought, so 

 virulently that the latter have died in a 

 short time from glanders, though the 



