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matter be thrown tip the nostrils with a syringe. But, If the 

 smallest quantity of matter be applied in the way of inocula- 

 tion, 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 believe, however, that glanders is fre- 

 quently communicated by (accidental) Inoculation; and that 

 there Is only one other way in which it can be communicated, 

 that Is, by swallowing the matter which flows from the nose of a 

 glandered horse. M. St. Bel, the first professor of our Veteri- 

 nary College, mixed some glanderous matter with flour, and 

 formed it Into balls. These balls were given daily to three 

 horses for one week. The youngest of the horses became glan- 

 dered In al)out a month ; the others were not affected till some 

 time after.* Glanders cannot be communicated tln-ough the air 

 by effluvia issuing from the glandered horse In the way that 

 putrid fever Is communicated ; for I have kept a horse badly 

 glandered in a stable with other horses, but with such a separa- 

 tion as would effectually prevent the sound horses from swallow- 

 ing or touching any of the matter, yet they Avere living in the 

 same air, there being a free communication with respect to any 

 effluvia there may have been between the sound and the glandered 

 horses. This trial was continued for some time, and several 

 horses were at different times placed in this sitttation. Glander- 

 ous matter has been rubbed on a sore place, or ulcer, that had a 

 healthy appearance In a sound horse : It altered the appearance 

 of the sore for a time ; but, after a few days, the healing process 

 went on again, and the sore soon got well. From this It appears 

 that, to communicate the glanders, the matter must be apj)lied 

 to a scratch or wound fresh made, and not to a sore on which 

 matter has formed. A sound horse has been Inoculated with 

 glanderous matter that had been mixed with ten times its weight 

 of water. This produced some degree of inflammation, and a 

 small ulcer of a suspicious appearance ; but after two or three 

 days it got quite well. This shows that glanderous matter may 

 be so far weakened by dilution with water, saliva, or the watery 

 secretion from the lower part of a glandered horse's nostrils, 

 when he has the disease in a very slight degree only, as to ren- 

 der It Incapable of communicating the disease. On the other 



* It is said this experiment has been repeated, but not with the same 

 result. 



