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another — on the wings of the wind; and this is by no means a 

 fanciful fiction, as minute portions of lung tissue are acknowl- 

 edged by physiologists to be regularly expelled at each act of 

 respiration, and it requires that no great demand should be made 

 upon the ordinary' intelligence of man to appreciate that at each 

 expiration active disease organizations should be conv^eyed, which 

 may still further be distributed by atmospheric currents, and 

 become inhaled through the breath into the lungs of a healthy 

 horse, from thence into the fluid stream and thus become devel- 

 oped like new seed upon fresh soil. To go closely into detail 

 into the patholog}-, modes of propagation, incubation and special 

 characteristics of this disease, would in a work of this kind, be a 

 waste of time and energ}'; the main thing in the first instance 

 that has to be impressed upon the minds of the probable readers 

 of this book is the extremely infectious and contagious character 

 of the disease; too much cannot be said upon this point, nor can 

 an}' horseman be too much warned against the serious conse- 

 quences of letting his charges once come near enough to a subject 

 of the disease to risk their becoming contaminated; in Great 

 Britain and various countries on the Continent of Europe the 

 losses sustained through the dire effects produced by this awful 

 disease cannot possibly be estimated, so rapidly infectious is it 

 when once established, while at the same time its approach is 

 occasionally most subtle b}' reason of the length of time it may lie 

 latent or undeveloped in the system, so far as external manifesta- 

 tions are concerned. Without doubt the first thing an owner has 

 to do who recognizes that he has a case of glanders or farcy in his 

 stable is to isolate such an animal, and the isolation stable should 

 be situated at a considerable distance from that ordinarily used for 

 healthy horses; moreover it is not less important that the stable- 

 man whose duty it is to attend a glanderous patient should be 

 kept strictly to his one job, and under no circumstances allowed 

 to g3 near other healthy animals; the box or stable occupied by 

 the infected animal up to the time of the discovery that it was the 

 subject of glanders or farcy, should be immediatel}' disinfected by 

 first Inirning powdered sulphur on a charcoal fire, every door, 

 window and aperture in the place being stopped up, the process 

 to be actively carried on for at least two hours; thereafter the 

 walls and paint should be carefully scraped and the refuse there- 



