152 DADD’S VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 
are propagated through the medium of stabling, and this we lelieve 
to be the more usual way in which the disease is communicated 
from horse to horse. 
2. That infected stabling may harbor and retain the infection 
for months, or even years; and although, by thoroughly cleansing 
and making use of disinfecting means, the contagion might be 
destroyed, yet it would not be wise to occupy such stables imme: 
diately after such supposed or alleged disinfection. 
3. That the virus, or poison of glanders, may lie for months, in 
a state of incubation, in the horse’s constitution before the disease 
breaks out. Of this we have had the most positive evidence. 
4. That when a stable of horses becomes contaminated, the dis- 
ease often makes fearful ravages among them before it quits; and 
it is only after a period of several months exemption from all dis- 
ease of the kind that a clean bill of health can be rendered.” 
From the preceding evidence, it is probable that the reader will 
entertain but little doubt of the contagious character of the malady ; 
yet it is very important that every one, either directly or indirectl:r 
interested in horses, or having any regard for the welfare of man- 
kind, should be familiar with all that is important and useful as 
regards the cause and nature of the awful malady now under con- 
aideration. It is often mistaken for other diseases that (in so far 
as contagion is concerned) are perfectly harmless; yet many valu- 
able human lives have paid the forfeit, and many priceless animale 
have been sacrificed on an altar of ignorance which the light of 
science has but recently illuminated. Hence, correct information 
is what the people require, in consequence of the emergency of the 
peril; and this is what the author aims at in offering this article 
for the consideration of the reader. 
Many hundreds of times, during the professional career of the 
author, have horses been brought to him for treatment, declared 
by their owners to be the subjects of glanders, simply because they 
had enlarged glands under the jaw, and a nasal discharge; an 
by the successful treatment of the same, he has got the ercdit of.- 
curing glanders, a feat which he never pretends to have accom- 
plished. Mr. GAm@re has very lucidly illustrated this part of 
the argument, as regards the mistakes made in diagnosing glanders 
He states that glanders may be suspected, instead of being a real- 
ity; hence, many supposed cures are on record. The following 
are his remarks, under the caption of “suspected glanders”’: 
