CHAP. III.] ENLARGED GLANDS, CURABLE. 369 



the sense of smelling. Its cure may be readily 

 effected, within two or three weeks of its appear- 

 ance, by frequent bleedings and fumigations. Hence 

 may be estimated the little necessity there is for 

 killing horses attacked by this disorder ; and what 

 important services may be rendered to society, or 

 to a regiment, for instance, by an intelligent farrier 

 making a proper distinction between this species of 

 glanders and all other affections and diseases re- 

 sembling it." 



Cause, — The glanders is a contagious disease 

 only when it has lasted for some time. Original 

 glanders may be acquired by horses being shut up 

 close together, in hot, damp stables, in swampy 

 situations — as in the case of the twenty-two cavalry 

 horses adduced higher up (page 348), which were 

 confined damp, under hatches, but were variously 

 affected, according to the predisposing cause in the 

 constitution of each individual. Those animals 

 were improperly condemned, because the disorder 

 had not continued long enough to render it con- 

 tagious, and they might have recovered if treated 

 as for a simple cold. 



A sudden transition from cold air to a hot stable, 

 as well as from heat to cold, will occasion a run- 

 ning at the nose; or a blow there, as- well as a 

 drench clumsily administered : either of those 

 causes being foreknown, should render us chary 

 of pronouncing the running contagious, and thus 

 subject the property to destruction, as proposed. 

 Almost any running, from whatever cause proceed- 



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