GLANDERS AND FARCY. 153 
“Glanders is, fortunately, a rare disease in this country (Scot- 
land), thanks to the pole-ax. Englishmen have long since advo- 
cated and practiced the shooting of suspected animals, rather than 
trusting the lives of men and horses to the chances of escape, 
wherever cases of chronic nasal discharge are met with. The com- 
mand officer and veterinarian of a British cavalry regiment would 
corsider it a great disgrace if such a disease acquired any firm hold 
in their stables ; and in spite of occasional introductions of the dis- 
ease when a number of remounts may be purchased, the unrelent- 
ing order to kill rather than attempt to cure, saves the public purse 
and the reputation of those responsible for the health and condi- 
tion of our troop horses. I am as great an advocate for the 
slaughter of glandered horses as I am for the slaughter of cattle 
affected with rinderpest. Glanders is more incurable than the 
cattle plague, as not even ten per cent. recover, but its commu- 
nication is less certain and swift. It never could and never did 
destroy its tens of thousands over a country in the short space 
of time in which the steppe murrain spreads over the land, but 
it is, nevertheless, wise and proper to stamp it out. We have not 
indulged, as do our neighbors the French—who manage this 
matter, at all events, worse than we—in wild theories as to the 
transmissibility of acute and not of chronic glanders. We adm'‘t 
it to be always contagious and always deadly, and prevent it kill- 
ing by shooting its vi-tims. 
Nasa GLEET. 
We must not, however, forget that there are hundreds—nay, 
thousands-—of cases of chronic nasal discharge which admit of 
some diagnosis on the part of skilled veterinarians, and which 
are erroneously set down as cases of glanders. Many of these 
cases are condemned because they baffle the attempts to restore 
them for a great length of time; and, unfortunately, in this 
country many forms of nasal disease have been rarely cured, 
simply because their nature has not been understood, and bold 
surgical operations have been dreaded. I could relate the histo- 
ries of many cases which have yielded to radical measures after 
several veterinarians had pronounced the animals incurably gland- 
ered-—more to get rid of them, perhaps, than from a conviction 
that they were suffering from the disease. I have seen as many 
ag half a dozen animals, in a stable containing a score of horses, 
