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takeable signs of g-landers, althoug-h there was not the 

 slig-htest reason to believe that the}' Avei-e inocidated with 

 it by contagion. It is, therefore, reasonable to conclude 

 Avith the majority of writers on the subject, that glanders 

 is generated by foul stables ; want of ventilation and over- 

 crowding being generally the chief cause and origin of the 

 disease. The essence of the disease appears to be an ulcer- 

 ation of the mucous membrane of the nostrils, which 

 speedily contaminates the nearest lymphatic gland, and 

 finally attacks the whole s^^stem, constituting the form 

 called * ' farcy," — to be presently described. The ulcers dis- 

 charge a poisonous matter, which is capable of communi- 

 cating the disease to other horses or to man, or if absorbed 

 into the s^'stem, as it always is in course of time, it destroys 

 the health with more or less rapidity, but with great cer- 

 tainty. But this matter must actually touch the mucous 

 membrane of the sound horse, and no mere breathing will 

 suffice to give the disease. It is by drinking out of the same 

 bucket, or by smelling one another, and rubbing noses to- 

 gether, or licking one another, that one horse affects 

 another; and if the stalls were higher, it would be carried 

 from one to the other much less frequently than at present. 

 But no one with any prudence would run the risk of keep- 

 ing an infected horse; and the sooner such an animal is shot 

 the better for all parties, since neither horse nor man is safe 

 from inoculation, with all the care in the woi-ld ; and in the 

 latter case it is a frightful disease indeed, and one which no 

 one is justified in risking under any pretence whatsoever. 

 Treatment seems to wholly thrown away, though some few 

 cases are recorded in which sulphate of copper given inter- 



