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and therefore diligently employed every precaution tliat could 

 be thought of to prevent the disorder from occurring. In con- 

 sequence of this, and the great care that was taken on the line 

 of road where the glandered horses were worked, the number 

 gradually diminished ; and the last time I heard, there was not 

 one left. About the same time, I attended the horses of Messrs. 

 Sw^eet and Co., common carriers, of Exeter, who had also a 

 team of glandered horses. Here the work was harder, and 

 somewhat irregular. The feeding did not appear to be so care- 

 fully attended to, nor was the general management of those 

 horses in any respect so good as that of Mi\ Russel's. In con- 

 sequence of this, the horses did not last so long, and much loss 

 was sustained, so much so, that the two concerns afforded a 

 striking proof of the truth of a former observation, that it is de- 

 cidedly the interest of all horse proprietors to work those useful 

 animals Avith moderation, and feed them proj^jcrl}-. 



It has been said that glanders has often been produced in the 

 cavalry by putting the horses, immediately after coming from 

 camp, where they are constantly exposed to the w^eather, into 

 warm stables, and giving them the full allowance of oats. This, 

 it is true, has often brought on inflammatory disorders, which 

 were very destructive, and sometimes of the catarrhal kind, in 

 which case, they were accompanied with a discbarge from the 

 nostrils. The acrimony of the matter would sometimes even 

 ulcerate the nostrils, and the disease would then be considered 

 as a decided case of glanders. I have known the distemper, or 

 epidemic catarrh, produce this effect. 



In the distemper that prevailed in the summer of 1799, 

 several horses in the Scotch Greys were said to have become 

 glandered from the violence of the distemper, and were accord- 

 ingly destroyed. Such cases may have been of a different 

 nature from glanders, though resembling the disease in one 

 symptom, which is generally considered decisive of its being so, 

 that is, in the ulceration wathin the nostrils. 



[Later researches have fully proved that glanders may be 

 produced, not only by contagion and the causes before enu- 

 merated, but also by catarrh, either in its common or epidemic 

 forms, also by strangles, and by inflammation of the lungs. In 

 such cases these diseases are said to degenerate into glanders. 

 In the last three cases that came under my attention, one was 

 preceded by strangles, another by bronchitis, and the third by 

 catarrh. That form of the disease called bastard strangles, in 

 which the glandular swelling does not suppurate kindly, but 

 becomes hard and scirrhous, is very apt to degenerate into 

 glanders. — Ed.] 



In 1784, a law was enacted by the French government to 

 prevent any one from keeping a glandered horse, under a 



