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stables ; or it may be communicated by :nfet tion, con 

 tagion, or inoculation, which last form includes conta- 

 gion. In some few cases, nature will cure, if the cause 

 of the disease be removed. But almost all cases of 

 confirmed glanders will prove fatal in spite of care and 

 medicine. If taken in season, some cases may be cured. 

 Almost every drug and medicine has been used for this 

 disease, and generally without success ; a few cases have 

 been cured by a decoction of tobacco. It is of the high- 

 est importance to guard against its production or propa 

 gation. 



Dr. Burgis says : " I have known several instances in 

 which there was no possibility of contact with glander- 

 ous matter, and yet the disease was developed in healthy 

 horses. A gentleman of fortune in the west of Ireland 

 had had his stud infected with glanders ; every particle 

 of wood-work in the stables, including stalls, rack, man- 

 ger, &c, was taken down and replaced with new mate- 

 rials ; the plastering on the walls was completely re- 

 moved, and the pavement ripped up ; and all was replaced 

 with entirely new work ; but the first horses that were 

 again put into those stables became infected, and they 

 were ultimately razed to the ground. It would even 

 appear that the contagious principle remains for a long 

 period in any stable where glanders may happen." 



GLANDERS IN MEN. 



A number of cases have occurred of glanders in men, 

 from inoculation, by getting some of the glanderous mat- 

 ter from the horse on some part of the body where the 

 skin was broken ; and some cases of glanders in men 

 have occurred without inoculation, but by infection. In 

 Paris, a groom slept in a stable occupied by a glandered 

 horse ; some days after the death of the horse, he was 

 attacked with the same disease, characterized by pustular 

 and gangrenous sores over the whole body. He died, 

 and with some matter from the sores, a foundered mare 

 was inoculated, and she had a true case of t'ie glanders, 

 of which she died. 



A young groom was in the habit of wiping ihe face of 

 a glandered horse with his pocket handkerchief; he 



