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glanderous matter must come in contact with a ■wound, or fall on 

 some membrane, thin and delicate, like that of the nose, and 

 through which it may be absorbed. It is easy, then, accustomed 

 as horses are to be crowded together, and to recognize each other 

 by the smell — eating out of the same manger, and drinking from 

 the same pail — ^to imagine that the disease may be very readily 

 communicated. One horse has passed another when he was in 

 the act of snorting, and has become glandered. Some fiUies have 

 received the infection from the matter blown by the vsdnd across 

 a lane, when a glandered horse, in the opposite field, has claimed 

 acquaintance by neighing or snorting. It is almost impossible foi 

 an infected horse to remain long in a stable with others without 

 irreparable mischief. 



If some persons underrate the danger, it is because the disease 

 may remain unrecognised in the -infected horse for some months, 

 or even years, and therefore, when it appears, it is attributed to 

 other causes, or to after inoculation. No glandered horse should 

 be employed on any farm, nor should a glandered horse be per- 

 mitted to work on any road, or even to pasture on any field. He 

 should be destroyed. 



In a weU settled case of glanders it is not worth while, ex- 

 cept by way of experiment at a veterinary school, to attempt 

 any remedies. The chances of cure are too remote, and the 

 danger of infection too great. 



If, however, remedial measures are resorted to, a pure atmos- 

 phere is that which should first be tried. Turn out the horse, 

 and, if practicable, on a salt marsh, — but much caution is requi- 

 site, as the grass, and even the fences may receive the glander- 

 ous matter ; and hardening on them, it may months afterward 

 communicate the disease to horses ; and there is not yet decided 

 proof that sheep and cattle are not subject to the^ same malady. 

 Worse than all, the man who attends on that horse is in 

 danger. The cases are now becoming far too numerous in 

 which the groom or the veterinary surgeon attending on glan 

 dered horses becomes infected, and in the majority of cases dies. 

 Every portion, of the stable, every vessel, &c., which have 

 been within the reach of a nasal discharge of a glandered 

 horse, should be well scraped, scoured with soap and water, 

 then well washed with a solution of chloride of lime (a pint ol 

 the chloride to a pail full of water,) and the walls white-washed. 

 His head gear should be burned — ^his clothing baked or washed — 

 pails newly painted — and the iron work with which he has been 

 in contact, should, where practicable, be ex]iosed to a red heat.* 



* Note by Mr. Spooner. — Mr. S.'s note contains nothing materially adding 

 to Mr. Touatt's elaborate account ; but the following is important : 

 The contagious character of glanders is very well known, and not only 

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