90 THE HOUSE. 



the disease; indeed, sound and glandered horses have 

 been known to work together without the disease being 

 communicated. 



Common causes of the disease are overwork, an 

 insufficient quantity of nutritious food, debility, and 

 foul, close stables. 



Where the precaution laid down at the end of the article 

 on " Strangles " has been observed, and there is no longer 

 a doubt that the disease is of a more serious nature than 

 that of strangles, the horse should be returned to the 

 vendor, the chance of effecting a cure being very small; 

 besides, there is danger of the attendant becoming inoc- 

 ulated, the expense of promoting the cure is heavy, and 

 the time that will elapse before the horse is sound and fit 

 for work is considerable. 



Glanders is seldom accompanied by any cough, but one 

 nostril is generally, in the early stages, affected, there 

 being a running from the nose of a glandered horse of a 

 more glue-like or colloid nature than that in strangles; 

 and it is useful to know that while the matter that runs 

 from the nose in the former disease sinks in water, that 

 which flows in strangles and cold, floats. 



Until the disease has made some progress, the horse 

 appears to be in good health, and his eyes bright and 

 clear; but it is prudent not to place too much reliance 

 upon this absence of symptoms. The moment that you 

 have any grounds for suspicion, procure a donkey or 

 some other animal of little value even a rabbit and let 

 him be inoculated with the matter; a few hours will 

 decide whether the disease is or is not present. Should 

 glanders be unmistakably discovered, the sooner both 

 animals are destroyed the better. 



The inoculation of the donkey with the suspicious 

 matter is not an inhuman act; for it is only the possible 

 sacrifice of one life, to insure the preservation of we know 

 not how many. Even the lives of the attendants are at 



