SECTION VI. 
GLANDERS AND FARCY. 
@uanpERs—GLANDERS CAN BE COMMUNICATED TO MAN—ConTaGiousNEss of 
GuianpERs—Suspecrep GLaNDERS—How caME THE DISEASE TO BE CALLED 
GuayveERs ?—DraGnostic Symprom of GLANDERS—TREATMENT OF GLANDERO— 
Faxcy (Diseask oF THE ABSORBENTS). 
GLANDERS. 
NE of the greatest evils which farmers and horse-dealers have 
been subjected to, during the prevalence of our late nationa. 
troubles, was the sale of condemned army horses, many of them 
being afflicted, either insidiously or actually, with that form of 
equine affection known as glanders; for it is a well-known fact 
that this terrible malady is, under certain circumstances or con- 
ditions of the animal economy, both infectious and contagious, 
hence the great evil. 
For example, should a glandered horse be placed in a stable 
where the principles of ventilation and of the admission of light 
are entirely disregarded, the other inmates of the den, by continu- 
ally breathing, over and over again, the contaminated atmosphere 
which must necessarily occupy the same, will (provided their sys- 
tems are susceptible) take the disease by infection ; that is to say, 
the miasmatic virus finds an introduction into the blood through 
the lungs and pulmonary circulation. On theother hand, glanders. 
under almost every circumstance, can be communicated by con- 
tagion or touch; that is, bringing the glandered nasal discharge in 
contact with an abraded surface, including cuts and scratches, 
GUANDERS CAN BE COMMUNICATED TO MAN. 
Within the last quarter of this century, two veterinary sur. 
geons-—one residing in Walworth, and the other in Wolverhamp- 
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