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and ultimately recovered. The preventive measures are— keeping animals 

 from contact with those diseased, and places where glandered horses 

 have been; a precaution adopted by everyone to the best of their know- 

 ledge and power. Too great care cannot be used in this matter, consider, 

 ing how powerfully infectious the disease is, even in its most incipient 

 stages. The stables at inns and public mews ought to be kept with 

 care, and disinfectants used in them at regular intervals ; not altogether 

 as a prevention of this disease, but to render the place more sweet and 

 wholesome, and prevent unseen and unsuspected accidents of this nature. 

 A tendency to glanders is considered to bo hereditary, therefore it 

 behoves the breeder to use every care in the selection of mare and stal- 

 lion, and to be assured as far as possible that neither come from a 

 glandered stock. 



As tho disease is the special heritage of the poor over-worked brute, 

 worn out in the hard service of another brute, who in return " stuffs 

 his ribs with mouldy hay," self-interest joins humanity in the appeal 

 that kind treatment and consideration for age and infirmities should be 

 practised, and that tho horse a3 well a3 the man deserves " a fair day's 

 wage for a fair day's work." 



The grossly filthy state in which some stables are kept, the manure 

 being allowed to accumulate in dark corners, poisoning the little fresh air 

 that finds its way into buildings built to prevent, not secure, ventilation, 

 is a great encourager of glanders, as the horse that is compelled to 

 breath vitiated air must soon lose in vital energy, and thus the seed-bed 

 i3 prepared for the propagation of any disease-germs that may exist, if 

 it does not, in fact, produce them. 



Glanders rarely or never finds its way into the stables of gentlemen, 

 and can only do so by unfortunate direct eontagion, because the conditions 

 that induce and foster that and other diseases are not allowed to exist. The 

 stables are lofty, light, well ventilated, and kept thoroughly clean— condi. 

 tions within the reach of all who keep a horse if they choose to adopt them. 

 As to treatment, although we would advise on the slightest suspicion 

 of danger that a qualified veterinary surgeon be called in, we will briefly 

 refer to one or two methods of treatment that have been adopted. There 

 is an old and cruel practice among farriers and others of slitting open 

 the horse's nostril and scraping the cartilage, searing the glands, and 

 firing the frontal and nasal bones ; others inject mixtures of strong mustard 

 and capsicum, solutions of corrosive sublimate and vitriol, &c. This ia 

 needless cruelty, suggested by a short-sighted ignorance, and can only 

 give the most excruciating pain without a reasonable hope of doing good, 

 and, of course, should never be permitted. A much more sensible and 

 more humane treatment was advised by that old writer Markham, which 

 was to take the Auripigmentum (sulphuret of arsenic), or lung's yellow, 

 as it is called, Tussilago (colt's-foot), and crude imperitim, and having 

 beaten them into a mass burn a part under a funnel placed on a dish or 

 piece of hot sheet iron, and fumigate the horse. 



