586 REFLECTIONS AND EXPERIMENTS ON THE 
Exp. VI. — Pus from the tumour of strangles was introduced, 
during several successive mornings, in the nostrils of a horse 
fifteen or sixteen years old. Want of room then compelled me 
to put him into a stable in which were several glandered horses. 
After six days had passed, we began to perceive chancres on the 
mucous membrane of the left nostril. The chancres became 
larger and more numerous, but there was not the slightest en- 
largement of the glands under the jaw. The animal rapidly 
lost flesh, and was destroyed. 
RECAPITU LATION. 
In the first experiment, the matter from the nose of a colt 
with strangles introduced into one of the nostrils of an ass 
seemed to produce no effect ; but the matter of glanders being- 
introduced into the other nostril, glanders appeared on the fourth 
day, and the animal died on the eighth day. 
In the second and third experiments, no effect was produced, 
although in the third the ass remained fifteen days in the stable 
in which a horse with strangles had been kept. 
In the fourth experiment, strangles was undeniably produced 
by the pus from the tumour. A nasal fiux appeared : a tumour 
appeared in the channel between the jaws; it suppurated, and 
ran its usual course. 
The fifth and sixth experiments were without result, except 
that the horse, being put into the same stable with others that 
were glandered, became glandered in a few days. 
To this I may add, that, during the spring and summer of 
the last year, many of the troop horses having strangles were 
received into our stables. I was often obliged to put them with 
other horses, but without any disease being produced. In seve- 
ral instances, neither the racks nor the mangers had been washed, 
yet no unpleasant results followed. Where, however, the stran- 
gles had an irregular character, or seemed as if they might dege- 
nerate into glanders, the sound horses were always removed. 
If I might venture to draw any conclusions from so small a 
number of experiments, they would be — 1st, That the conta- 
gious character of strangles has been much exaggerated, and 
that it does not appear that the places in which horses with 
glanders have been kept, nor the vessels which they have used, 
can communicate the disease. 2dly, That, so far as these ex- 
periments go, inoculation in the nasal cavities has been the only 
means by which strangles has been communicated. 3dly, That 
a few only of those into whose nostrils the matter from the nose 
or the tumour was introduced became infected. 4thly, That the 
contagious quality of the matter of strangles is infinitely less 
