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REVIEW OF YOUATTS LECTURES 
It is true that there are some horses, which, when they be¬ 
come glaadered or farcied in not only those, but likewise other 
places, from their natural strength of constitutiouj are capable 
for a time of performing ordinary exertion, and that with benefit 
to their owners; whilst, on the other hand, there are others, 
whose system not being so strong, fall off immediately, and, of 
course, the sooner they are destroyed the better. But in neither 
of these instances do we find the system in a healthy and natu¬ 
ral state. 
Mr. Youatt, in his Lectures on Glanders, advises his pupils 
not to puzzle themselves with the distinction betwixt healthy 
hy the wind, and she became diseased, dicd^.'’ This out-Herod’s Herod; 
with the exception of M. Sannicr, who asserted that Glanders could be 
communicated from one horse to another at the distance of fifteen or 
twenty miles, (Vide p. 163-4, Practical Treatise.) 
But the best of the joke is, that when treating on the causes of the 
Ghinders, to our very great surprise, this ingenious author (as Mr. Blaine 
calls him) introduces to our notice the valuable paper of his friend, Mr. 
Turner, and attempts to explain, that the same cause which produces the 
navicular disease in the foot of the horse, likewise produces Glanders in the 
head^^. 
® As to the disease being communicated in a way perfectly unique, I can¬ 
not, at the present moment, recollect my authority ; but it was one among 
the numerous and strange facts accumulated in my memory. I will “ hark 
back,’* and find it if I can, and the public shall then judge of the worth of 
the authority. 
Now for the real fact of this “ best of the joke.” At the commence¬ 
ment of Lecture IX are the following remarks :— 
“ Want of regular exercise. —This is a frequent although unsuspected pre¬ 
disposing cause of glanders, as it is of almost every disease to which the horse 
is subje,ct. Mr. Turner has well explained this in his valuable account of 
the navicular disease. He does not attribute the inflammation of the sy¬ 
novial membrane, and consequent injury and disorganization of the joint, 
to honest wear and tear on the road. It has its real origin in rest. The 
predisposition for it is engendered in the stable, although it becomes per¬ 
manently established by v iolence out of the stable. 
“So when a horse is irregularly worked, and more particularly worked 
with unusual severity, and is beeorne out of spirits and falls away in flesh, a 
holiday is given him ; he stands idle for three or four days or a week ; he is 
then suddenly taken out of the stable, he is put to his former hard work, and, 
perhaps, the ow ner attempts to make up a little for lost time: but his mus¬ 
cles have got out of action; it requires a vast deal more exertion of nervous 
energy, and more actual labour to accomplish his wonted task; and when it 
is accomplished, and he reaches the stable once more, he hangs his head and 
refuses to eat, and he is, in fact, in a state of fever. The groom perhaps crams 
him with cordials; and this state of general fever has a local determination— 
the weakest goes to the w all, and either the lungs or the feet, or this mem¬ 
brane, almost the weakest part of all, exposed day after day to the stimu¬ 
lating, debilitating influences of which I have spoken in a former lecture— 
“ the membrane of the nose becomes the principal seat of inflammation, 
which terminates in glanders.” 
