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purchasing a horse so afflicted. A respectable 

 man would reject him, knowing that, without 

 setting at defiance all pretensions to honesty, he 

 could never e^et rid of his baro;ain, but to a ro2:ue 

 or a slayer of horses : the sensible man would re- 

 ject such a horse, knowing that in a confirmed 

 state it is incurable, and in a recent one the cure 

 is in all cases very slow and precarious. In its in- 

 cipient form it has been cured, and no doubt will 

 again be so. But there is no doubt that glanders 

 of long standing is a perfectly hopeless case. 



It is not my province to give a decided opinion 

 on any professional matter that admits of doubt. 

 "\Ye will not, therefore, go into the very abstruse 

 definition of contagion, as relates to this frightful 

 disease. That it is to be engendered by inocu- 

 lation we know, whether by the lancet, or by the 

 stomach havins* imbibed glandulous matter. It 

 has also been clearly ascertained that sound horses 

 have become affected by standing in the same 

 stable with glandered ones, without it having 

 come to our knowledge that inoculation of any 

 sort had taken place. If this really was proved 

 to have been the case, it would show that the 

 disease was epidemic as well as contagious. These 

 attributes, however they may be matters of con- 

 sideration, and indeed of general importance, pro- 

 fessionally considered, are not of any import so far 

 as the extent of this work goes ; for, be it con- 



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