274 GLANDERS. 
generally mild affection, nurse with every possible care, and begrudge no 
expense which can add to the comfort of the patient. 
GLANDERS. 
This is the most loathsome disease to which the horse is subject. It 
is provoked by stimulating food combined with exhausting labor. It 
was formerly very common in posting stables; long stage teams were 
seldom free from it. The London omnibuses, by night, are said to drive 
glandered horses, and the proprietors of those vehicles are reported to 
keep glandered stables. 
In all of such cases the food is of the best and most stimulating 
description—twenty pounds of oats and beans with five pounds of hay, 
per day, are needed to keep a glandered horse in working condition. 
Gentlemen formerly used to fee the post-boy to ‘push along.” We well 
remember the quivering forms of gasping flesh which were unharnessed 
whenever the old coach changed horses. 
Omnibuses are very heavy; the constant stoppages make the draught 
still more severe. The animals which appear in front of these vehicles 
are small in size, rarely sixteen hands high, but the best and strongest 
their proprietors can afford. A little breed is desirable, as a coarse 
horse would lack the courage to take the collar and to persevere. The 
age of these horses is generally three years when first bought in. Some 
animals have worked through many seasons, but such instances are ex- 
ceptions. Numbers annually yield to the drag upon the constitution. 
These are sold for what they will fetch. But several, either from weakness 
or some other cause which our science yet lacks perception to discover, 
annually become glandered. 
Youth and high feeding, conjoined with excessive labor and damp 
lodging, will certainly produce glanders. Age, starvation, and ceaseless 
toil generally induce farcy. The glanders and the farcy, however, are 
one and the same disease, modified by the cause which originates them. 
Glanders is the more vigorous form of the disorder; farcy is the slow 
type, fastening upon general debility. 
These disorders have heen the scourges of horse-flesh. They still are 
the inheritance which man’s willing slave gains by service to a harsh and 
eruel master. Men, to their fellow-men, sometimes confess, without any 
sense of shame, that they buy cheap horses to work them up. It is, in 
some cases, esteemed more economical to exhaust the life than to pur- 
chase and to maintain that number of animals which would be equal to 
the labor. This horrible system is in daily operation in a country 
professing Christianity ! 
