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tiv as disease. Supposing, however, the horse to be sound, 

 an i moderately well kept and attended to, and his stable 

 clean and well ventilated, we may then assert that, although 

 a horse be brought into immediate neighbourship, (as in a 

 team together), but not into actual contact, with anothei 

 attacked with glanders, the disease will not be communi- 

 cated to the healthy horse, except by positive contagion, 

 or rather inoculation. 



Most persons understand that inoculation means the 

 conveying into the blood, or some other of the internal 

 vessels or organs, the virus or matter taken from some 

 other animal or subject. — Now, in the case under conside- 

 ration, we will suppose that the infectious matter exists, 

 and may have tainted the water-pail, the manger, or other 

 part of the stall, or the like, particularly as the running 

 from the nose of the glandered horse is very contagious. 

 A sound horse is introduced into the stable, and drinks out 

 of the same pail, or trough, or eats from the same manger, 

 or his nose touches, or he rubs himself against some part 

 of the stall which has been in contact with the diseased 

 horse ; the moment the contact takes place, the absorbent 

 or sponge-like action ensues, either by means of the nos- 

 tril receiving the infectious virus, or some part of the skin 

 being injured, the inoculation is made, and the sound horse 

 will, in a very short time, exhibit ample evidence that the 

 contao^ious characteristics of this fell disease have been 

 communicated. 



This disease, incurable as it is ascertained to be, is not 

 however equally rapid in its progress in all horses ; in 

 some its deleterious poison is speedily conveyed over the 

 whole system in a very few weeks, and the result is speed- 

 ily fatal ; while in others it progresses so tardily, that the 

 animal appears scarcely to suffer by it for a considerable 

 space of time ; its result, however, even in these cases, is 

 eq'ially certain, although more remote, and after under- 

 mi ling the constitution of the animal, will eventually cause 

 his premature dissolution. 



The moment that glanders is believed to have made its 

 appearance, be careful to separate the suspected horse 

 fiom the rest, and under no circumstances permit any of 

 the others to come in contact with him : the manger he 

 eats from, the pail he drinks from, the brush or comb used 

 in dressing him, must all be kept from touching any other 



