20 MANUAL OF MODERN FARRIERY 



If doubt exists as to the animal being glandered, the 

 ''mallein test" should be applied by the veterinary 

 attendant. Glanders is a scheduled disease, so that 

 the existence must also be reported to the Local 

 Authority, and the animal destroyed. Professor 

 Nocard of Paris entertains the opinion from experi- 

 ments v/hich he has performed, that glanders in its 

 early stages is curable by injections of mallein. 



From an ill-judged piece of economy, many 

 persons, after being aware of a horse being glandered, 

 persist in keeping it in the same stable with others. 

 Every hour is risking the health of all he possesses. 

 It is the duty of every person, so soon as he is certain 

 of his horse having caught this disease, to destroy it 

 as speedily as possible. For, although a glandered 

 horse may be able to work for a considerable length 

 of time under the influence of this disorder, he will 

 find ultimately that it is a bad piece of economy to 

 keep him under such circumstances. 



Many persons who have lost their horses by this 

 disease have resorted to extremes to prevent a con- 

 tinuance of it. Some have even gone so far as to pull 

 down their stables, and others to remove their racks, 

 mangers, and partitions. It is quite sufficient if the 

 mangers and other parts which the discharge from the 

 nostrils have touched, is well washed with a scrubbing 

 brush, with a strong solution of soda and water, and 

 afterwards with chloride of lime, the proportion of 

 which should be a pint-and-a-half to a pailful of water. 

 The walls should be washed with lime and water, 

 containing a pint of crude carbolic acid to the pailful 

 of lime-wash, and all the halters, etc., destroyed, and 

 the iron work painted. 



Caution. — All purchasers of horses at fairs, or 

 from dealers with whom they are not acquainted, 



