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crowded stables." Glanders also is the sequel and termina- 

 tion of influenza, strangles, and other diseases, especially 

 when prolonged either by neglect or mismanagement. Any 

 man who has seen numbers of horses in the late epizootic 

 must have seen cases of glanders as the termination of that 

 disorder. 



There is wonderful resemblance between this equine 

 disease and some diseases of mankind, such as syphilis and 

 tuberculosis. It is like syphilis, for it is a specific disease, 

 •it has a specific virus and a specific inflammation, and pro- 

 duces by inoculation its own kind, and no other. Nor does 

 the likeness end here. ist. Each of these disorders exhibits 

 a peculiar plan of morbid process. 2d. Each depends upon 

 a peculiar cause. 3d. The effects of that cause are alto- 

 gether irrespective of its quantity or the extent of applica- 

 tion (the smallest particle of the virus of glanders absorbed 

 into the system is sufficient to produce the disease ; the same 

 aplies to syphilis). 4th, They are especially diffusible from 

 one part of the body to another. 5th. They exhibit different 

 stages of morbid process, and so forth. 



Its analogy with tubercular disease might be easily traced 

 (if space permitted) by the deposition of tubercle on the lung 

 tissue, septum nasi, (S:c. The inflammation of each is fol- 

 lowed by abscesses, ulcerations, and other disorders of the 

 skin, mucous membrane, glands and bones, showing great 

 obstinacy in their career. This tubercle is seldom, if ever, 

 absorbed, either in phthisis or glanders. The contagious- 

 ness of this disease, both to man and beast, is acknowledged 

 by all people. Horse proprietors often fancy that when they 

 have made their stables scrupulously clean after the removal 

 of an animal who had the disease that all danger is then 

 past; but this is very often a fallacy. When once the virus 

 is strewn about and lodged in a stable it is not so easily 

 dislodged as are some poor tenants. It is well for the com- 

 munity that there are some men who make "neglect and 

 cruelty to animals " in every form their special business, for 



