THE HOKSE, DISEASES OF THE NASAL, GLANDS, ETC. 301 



Take from the ueck vein from three to six quarts of blood, accord- 

 ing as the horse may appear feeble or plethoric. Make a gallon of 

 very strong decoction or tea of tobacco leaves, which keej) ready for use. 

 Put enough of this into warm water, (as warm as the horse can well 

 bear), and swab out his nostrils with it, as high up as possible, using 

 mop as just directed. Then put a gill of this same strong tobacco tea 

 into a pint of warm water, and drench him with the solution. There 

 must be no uneasiness on account of the dreadful sickness which this * 

 will produce. The tobacco is necessary thoroughly to relax the system 

 and overcome fixed or chronic tendencies, and to counteract the influence 

 of the glanderous poison. Swab out the nose every day for eight or ten 

 days, and drench every third day for from two to four weeks, or until 

 the discharge has ceased and the ulcers are perceptibly healing. 



So for the first two stages. If all these directions, (those as to food 

 and care as well as for the administering of medicines), are faithfully 

 carried out, a reasonable hope of success may be entertained. If the 

 disease has passed into the third stage, however, no treatment can be 

 confidently recommended. So doubtful is it as to Avhether any remedial 

 agencies will avail, that most veterinarians in the United States confi- 

 dently declare that the best thing to do is to kill the sufferer in the 

 quickest and most humane way, and bury him deep in the ground, beyond 

 the possibility of his contaminating the atmosphere with his decaying and 

 poisonous carcass. This is made a matter of legislative enactment in 

 England — severe penalties attaching to the keeping of glandered horses 

 — and it is contended by some that the general safety of both animals 

 and man require like legal enactments in this country ; but, as we have 

 said, until he has passed into the third state, or where he seems to be 

 suffering with both glanders and farcy, a good horse ought not to be sac- 

 rificed. It cannot be too strongly urged, however, that no effort ought 

 to be spared to prevent the spread of the contagion ; and the man 

 who would expose a horse for sale, known to him to be glandered, but 

 not apparent to a casual observer, ought to be confined in the State 

 prison. 



A horse affected with this disease, in any stage, is dangerous to th« 

 man who handles him ; but he is doubly so, perhaps, when he has become 

 a loathsome object in limbs and body as well as in head ; and under 

 ordinary circumstances it is doubtless best to destroy him as quickly aa 

 possible. In case treatment is determined upon, nothing better than thai 

 prescribed for the second stage can be recommended. 



The reader's attention ought to be called to this fact: that there have 

 been instances of a spontaneous curt of glanders — ^that is, of cures 

 having taken place without the agency of remedial means used by man ; 



