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ON GLANDERS. 
of olanders which occurred in my practice not long since, and in 
which the contagious nature of the complaint appeared to me 
very evident. 
In February 1832, I was sent for, to a considerable distance 
from this place, in order to give my opinion on the case of a 
horse supposed to be glandered : I felt no hesitation about the 
matter • and, as the horse had been diseased for seveial months, 
he was shortly afterwards destroyed. . _ . 
In the latter end of June in the same year, I received a letter 
from the gentleman, the owner of the above-named horse, again re- 
questing°mv attendance at his house. I found that my patients 
■were two very fine four-years old horses that had farcy ulcerations 
and swellings upon the extremities : the disease had been obseived 
for two or three weeks, and the horses prescribed for by a vete 
rinarian of the neighbourhood. Knowing the previous case of 
glanders, I very strictly inquired whether there had been any 
communication between these young horses and the one that had 
been destroyed, and was positively assured by the proprietor of 
the horses and his groom that there had been no possibility o 
intercourse between them ; and that they had, in fact, nevei been 
near the glandered horse, and that any thing like contact or 
application of matter was out of the question. After this decla¬ 
ration, 1 was obliged to admit and to consider that the farcy 
must have had its origin from some other source than contagion, 
and advised that Mr. Vines’ plan of treatment should be 
adopted. t . 
The gentleman now asked me to walk with him to a field at some 
little distance from his house, in order to see a very fine hunter 
that he supposed had taken a cold some time ago, and which had 
left an enlargement under his jaw, which he should like to have 
removed ; at the same time remarking, that there was not much 
the matter with him, for he was in as good health and spirits as 
a horse could be. I found the horse full of flesh and spirits, but 
with an enlargement of the size of a pigeon’s egg firmly attached 
to the lower jaw, and a discharge, but not a profuse one, from tie 
nostril of the same side. The horse had been in the same state 
for three months. , , 
The case was now unravelled; for although this horse had not 
been kept in the same stable with the subject of the first case, 
still there were frequent opportunities of communication; they 
were watered often from the same bucket, and the same brushes, 
&c. made use of in dressing them : in fact, the first case was not 
supposed to be glandered till shortly before I saw him, and no 
very strict quarantine had been enforced. 
In May, the hunter (with the enlarged gland and nasal dis- 
