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of vitriol has been so disinfected that it has become inert, 

 even when a young ass has been inoculated with it. This 

 gas as a fumigation may be used when the stable is to be 

 purified after giandered horses. Some persons advise the 

 stables to be pulled down ; this is altogether unnecessary. 

 Let every portion of the stable to which the animals could 

 have had acce.ss be thoroughly washed with chloride of 

 lime, the following day scrubbed with warm water and 

 soap, and, when thoroughly dry, washed over with sulphate 

 of zinc. Three days after they may be occupied without 

 danger. 



From these observations we gather that the precautions 

 against the generation and spread of glanders and farcy 

 are : (1) Ventilation of Stables ; (2) Cleanliness, in which 

 is included the draining of them; (3) The immediate and 

 complete Separation of the Sick from the Healthy. 



Communication of Glanders to the Human Subject. — 

 Though for a long time disputed, the melancholy fact 

 that glanders is communicable by the horse to man has 

 received ample evidence of late years. It is as well 

 proved as inoculation in syphilis, the absorption of the 

 vaccine virus, or the contagion of itch or mange multi- 

 plying the acarides which produce those irritating skin 

 diseases. Of the nature of the virus of glanders we 

 know no more than we do of those of syphilis, rabies, 

 smallpox, etc. ; we can only speak from observation of 

 their effects. When glanders is communicated to man, 

 the consequences are indeed horrible. The whole secretory 

 and excretory systems are affected, the glands of the 

 armpits, the groin, and especially the salivary glands, 

 swell painfully and burst, and the sufferer dies pitiably. 

 Mr. Mayhew says : '* Three cases have come to the author's 

 knowledge. Two respectable gentlemen, moving in good 

 society, were contaminated, and both perished miserably 

 of the terrible disease. Mr. Gowing of Camden Town, 

 informed the writer of a boy who went out of a shop to 

 hold a customer's pony. While the boy was so placed, 

 the pony cleared its nostrils, and a portion of the ejected 

 matter flew into the lad's eye. The handkerchief removed 

 the soil, and the accident was forgotten. The poor youth 

 was giandered, and died in the University Hospital." 



Treatment of Glanders. — The general opinion of English 

 and French veterinarians has settled down into a belief 



