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ON GLAXDKHS. 
1 have had since iny return from the expedition to Egypt I have 
no doubt; but that it is infectious to the extent that some suppose, 
I am inclined much to doubt. I know one horse who worked for 
two years in a glandered team, and whose death, after all, could be 
attributed to no other cause than inflammation of the bowels. 
About thirty-four years ago I had the care of large establish¬ 
ments under the superintendence of the late Mr. White. In 
some of these hospitals we had no other division than a brick par¬ 
tition of about eight feet high to separate the glandered horses 
from the other patients, and I never knew a single instance of one 
of those on the sound side of the partition becoming glandered. 
In all fairness I ought to admit what subsequent experience, in a 
confined locality like Guernsey, has enabled me frequentl}' to put 
to the test, namely, that the disease will exist in a latent state for 
a long interval. The following is the most striking case of the 
kind I have ever known:— 
A brown mare was bought at a sale of glandered horses belong¬ 
ing to the same Mr. Isemonger of whom I have already spoken. 
She was some time afterwards offered to me as a great bargain, but 
I refused her on account of the unhealthy appearance of her coat, 
with other symptoms, which I have been taught to regard as omi¬ 
nous. This mare was afterwards sold to H. T. Brehaut, Esq., of 
Richmond, in this island. She was there got into splendid con¬ 
dition. 
However encouraging this might have been to a superficial ob¬ 
server, that circumstance acted as a match applied to hidden com- 
,bustibles. It awakened and developed that which had lain dor¬ 
mant about three years. She suddenly became ill, and died. 
On being opened her lungs were found studded with tubercles; 
the inferior maxillary glands were enlarged, and this was accom¬ 
panied by all the other symptoms of glanders. 
I have generally observed of horses which have been infected 
with glanders, that, if they are not worked and are kept low, the 
disease will lie in a dormant state for a considerable length of time ; 
but as soon as they are put to hard work or fed high, it will break 
out with great violence, and very soon carry off its victim. 
Perhaps the circumstance of my residing in so small an island, 
where cases cannot escape my observation, enables me so easily to 
watch the progress of this insidious disease, and to give an opinion 
with confidence on the features which mark its course. 
