276 GLANDERS. 
ago, an affected horse, led through the streets, was an almost hourly 
occurrence. Since that time we have improved, and such sights are no 
longer common. Therefore the morality here alluded to is not of limited 
meaning. It implies improvements in drainage, and all those innovations 
by which life has been made more secure. He is the truest benefactor 
of mankind who lessens the ills to which existence is exposed. 
Glanders is the phthisis of the horse. Phthisis is, in some countries, 
esteemed even more dangerously contagious than glanders and farcy are 
in England admitted to be. Man, however, employs a handkerchief; 
the plates off which he feeds are washed. The manger is never cleansed ; 
and the discharge soils the boards on which the corn reposes. 
The lungs of very many horses, however, which have perished of the 
pest, will exhibit numerous tubercles; these, in the human subject, are 
considered conclusive evidence as to the existence of phthisis. 
THE LUNGS OF A HORSE WHICH HAD PERISHED FROM GLANDERS. 
(A portion of the left lung has been excised, to show the ravage of the disease.) 
By some practitioners glanders is esteemed a purely local disorder. 
In books, schools, and elsewhere, the running from the nose has been 
pointed out as the disease itself; and the situation of the affection is 
said to be the frontal sinuses—hence the dependence placed in various 
caustic injections forced up the nostrils. 
A very little reflection will, however, enable the reader to take a more 
extended view of the malady. When glanders exists, a staring coat 
generally declares the skin affected; and the customary termination of 
the disorder—farcy and dropsy—proves more than the surface of the 
body to be implicated. The lungs—or, at all events, the air-passages— 
never escape. Loss of flesh and swelling of the glands demonstrate the 
absorbent system to be involved. Absence of spirit and inability to work, 
toward the close of the affection, are evidence the nervous system does 
not escape. The secretions are derived from the blood; and the blood, 
it has been shown, by a silly experiment, is capable of generating the 
malady. Their pallid aspect, after death, convinces us the muscles were 
far from healthy. Of all parts, perhaps, the abdominal contents are least 
diseased, though the marked decay of appetite does not favor such an 
opinion. What disease, then, can be considered a constitutional disor- 
