206 MR. youatt’s veterinary lectures. 
on the other hand, I know that every thing that causes much 
disturbance in the frame will likewise produce glanders, and par¬ 
ticularly inoculation with the discharge of grease, with putrid 
matter of any kind, and even the injection of acrimonious fluids 
into the nose or the jugular. This should, however, teach us 
caution; for some very promising veterinary surgeons have been 
lost in this way. 
Precautions proper to be adopted .—What precautions, then, 
shall we adopt? Remove the source of evil. Sell, or rather, 
destroy the glandered horse. Will this be sufficient? No; far 
from it; for sound horses, weeks and months afterwards, being 
put in a stable whence a gland ered one had been taken, have 
speedily become glandered. Some of the discharge from the 
nose has remained about the manger, or rack, or partition, which, 
although dried up, may be readily softened by the breath of the 
new horse, or in the act of nibbling. Shall we, then, pull down 
the stables, or at least gut them, and plaster them afresh, and 
have new wood-work ? There is no necessity for all this destruc¬ 
tion and expense. Let the halters, and head-gear, and bridles be 
burned ; and the clothes washed and baked ; and the pails newly 
painted, and the racks and manger thoroughly scraped, and 
then washed well with soap and water and sand, and afterwards 
very carefully with chloride of lime and water, in the proportion 
of a pint of the strong solution to a pailful of water; and let the 
walls be well scraped and washed with the chloride of lime 
and water, and then well lime-washed ; and the floor be first 
thoroughly scoured and then sluiced with the chloride, and every 
possibility of danger will be removed. 
The treatment of glanders will be considered in our next 
lecture. 
LECTURE X. 
The Medical Treatment of Glanders—Supposed Cases of Glan¬ 
ders often fallacious—Importance of pure and cool Air—The 
impossibility of using local Applications — Counter-irritants — 
Tonics . 
The unsatisfactory Nature of this Inquiry .—I regret that I 
have nothing satisfactory to lay before you on the medical treat¬ 
ment of glanders. There have been a thousand pretended spe¬ 
cifics ; and even regular and scientific practitioners have flattered 
themselves that they had discovered this chiefest among the 
veterinary desiderata—a cure for glanders. Some horses have 
apparently recovered, and that under every stage of the disease, 
except when the lungs were much tuberculated, and vomicae had 
appeared. They have recovered under every mode of treatment, 
