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glanders succeeded. This point, then, seemed pretty clearly 
established, that the virus may be received without injury on 
the very membrane which was the seat of the disease. 
Not by the Breath. —The question as to the disease being com¬ 
municated by the halitus or breath, at least to any considerable 
distance, is likewise settled. High partitions, but not reaching 
to the ceiling, have been raised; and, separated by them, and 
especial care being taken that they should never come in contact, 
or wear the same harness, or drink out of the same pail, sound 
horses have been kept for an indefinite period of time by the side 
of glandered ones without injury; they were then, as I have said, 
placed in the same stall, and yet were unaffected. 
Effects of the Virus being swallowed. —Then it was imagined 
that the vims must be received on an abraded surface, but some 
difficulties presented themselves here. It was a well-established 
fact, that after glandered horses had been removed from a stable, 
and sound ones placed in their stalls, they also became glan¬ 
dered ; and when there was no previous unhealthiness of the 
stable, and no bad management to account for the production of 
the disease, except that the stalls had not been sufficiently 
scoured, and some of the matter of glanders in a dry form was 
probably sticking about them. To this was added the fact, as 
well established as the former, that horses had been infected by 
drinking out of the same pail with glandered horses. To these 
Mr. White adds a more singular fact, that a team of glandered 
horses stopped occasionally on a gentleman’s premises to take up 
goods, and that during the time of loading they were fed with 
hay that was thrown upon the ground. More or less of this hay 
was left, which was generally eaten by a horse and two colts 
that fed in an adjoining paddock. All three of them became 
glandered. 
Principally by being received on an abraded Surface. —Hence 
arises a question, whether the matter of glanders being swallowed, 
and passing into the intestines, and being absorbed by the lac- 
teals, and carried into the system, may not empoison the blood, 
and produce this disease. In drinking from the pail the matter 
may be thus taken up, or, when left dry on the manger or the 
rack, it might have been licked off when the sound horse suc¬ 
ceeded the glandered one. This is a point which I will not pre¬ 
sume to decide; but I would say, if I had not the fear of my 
own assertion before my eyes with regard to the folly of reason¬ 
ing from analogy in these cases, that there being so many in¬ 
stances of animal poison being swallowed with impunity, the 
contamination must be attributed to some abrasion of the mouth. 
