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the urine. 2d. On opening the skull, the brain is found softer 

 and more flaccid than in the healthy horse, and there is gene- 

 rally more or less water in the ventricles. The plexus choroides 

 appears gorged, the crystalline humour of the eye dull, and 

 Avithout consistence, or, as if it were decomposed. It is not to 

 be supposed that all these morbid appearances will be found in 

 the same horse, or that they are all necessary to enable us to 

 declare that the horse was glandered ; it is sufficient if some of 

 them are found, provided the external symptoms during the 

 horse's life were such as we have before described as charac- 

 teristic of glanders."* 



As I have demonstrated the manner in which glanders Is 

 communicated, it is needless to say any thing of the mode of 

 prevention, except briefly observing, that it can be accomplished 

 only by preventing any glanderous matter from coming near a 

 horse, or mixing with his food or water; and that the only 

 method of purifying an infected stable. Is to remove every thing 

 on which glanderous matter may have fallen, and to wash and 

 scrape the fixtures, such as the rack and manger, thoroughly. 

 I have. In a former edition, advised a fumigation with the gas 

 which arises from a mixture of common salt, manganese, and oil 

 of vitriol, because I have found that glanderous matter which 

 has been exposed to this gas Is rendered quite innocent, though 

 an ass be Inoculated with It ; and I have directed the stable to 

 be first thoroughly cleansed, because. If any dry hard glan- 

 derous matter should remain, the water employed In cleansing 

 the stable will have moistened It, and thereby enable the 

 fumigation to mix with it, and destroy Its poisonous quality. 



[Some persons fancy that It Is necessary to pull down and 

 remove the racks and mangers of a glandered stable. This, 

 however, is altogether unnecessary. The following plan will be 

 found at once effectual, convenient, and economical : — Let the 

 whole of the stable, or at least every part to which the diseased 

 animals could possibly have had access, be washed with a solu- 

 tion of chloride of lime, and the following day well scrubbed 

 with soap and water, and as soon as It is dry again, washed with 

 the chloride of lime. In a few days afterwards, It may be used 

 without any danger. — Ed.] 



Treatment. — I have already observed that a glandered horse 

 has. In several Instances, been known to get entirely free from 

 the disorder while employed in moderate work, and carefully 

 fed and attended, without taking any medicine : I have also 

 Been the disorder cured by mercury, and have known Instances 



* In some cases, when horses are destroyed on account of chronic glanders 

 in a mild form, the post moi-tem appearances are very slight ; a paleness or 

 leaden hue of the nasal membrane, with very diminutive specks of ulceration, 

 are all that can be discovered. — Ed. 



