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his groom from going near the horse-lines. The best plan is 

 to pitch a small tent for him to live in, close by the horse he 

 is looking after. 



4. If the latter show decided symptoms of glanders he 

 should, after being shot, be buried fully four feet deep. 

 Before he is covered over his hide should be slashed with a 

 knife, otherwise he may be dug up and skinned by the 

 natives. Some disinfectant should be thrown upon the 

 carcase, and the earth over it rammed hard. It should then 

 be covered with prickly bushes and large pieces of rock. 

 The last precaution is for the purpose of preventing jackals 

 scratching away the soil and eating the flesh. 



5. All the stable-gear of the horse should be burnt, and 

 his groom's clothes boiled before he is allowed to return to 

 the stables. 



Some years ago, when engaged in stamping out glanders 

 from a Bengal cavalry regiment, in which fifteen troop- 

 horses and seven ponies were destroyed by the disease, two 

 remounts became glandered within seven or eight weeks 

 after they had been handed over to cavalrymen whose in- 

 fected horses had shortly before been shot. 



I had adopted the usual measures for preventing the spread 

 of the disease, and could only account for the new animals 

 having become affected by their riders neglecting to obey the 

 orders about boiling their clothes. 



If it be found that glanders exists in any of the neighbour- 

 ing villages, cavalry guards should accompany the grass- 

 cutters and see that they do not go near the infected places. 

 It is quite useless merely to give the grass-cutters orders to 

 avoid them. 



Baesati. 



Barsati is a disease peculiar, I believe, to hot parts of the 

 East. Although it has been studied for years past by various 

 veterinary surgeons, its true nature is not yet perfectly 

 known. Mr. Collins, late P.V.S. in India, suggested some 

 time since that the disease seems parasitic. Veterinary- 

 Surgeon Smith, of the 12th Lancers, has asserted that he 



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