WORKS ON GLANDERS. 
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with those that are glanderecl; and among the latter are unwhole¬ 
some food, suppression of perspiration, and other maladies ne¬ 
glected, badly treated, or repeated. Glanders following farcy is al¬ 
ways incurable, but glanders degenerating into farcy often admits 
of cure. Hippocrates states the same opinion, and asserts that, 
when a horse has been farcied, he is subject to become glandered. 
IV. Reflections on the curability of Glanders .—It is not in¬ 
curable, but its treatment has hitherto been long, and conse¬ 
quently expensive, and very uncertain in its result. The cure 
should only be undertaken when the horse is in good condition, of 
a sound constitution, free from other diseases, and when the pro¬ 
bable causes of the malady may be removed. 
V. The examination and separation of diseased or suspected 
horses .—This article is filled with most useful details. It is a 
perfect description of the only scientific and safe method of pro¬ 
ceeding in the examination of a stable, a farm, a post-house, or 
regiment, in which glanders has appeared. 
VI. The manner of classing the diseased or suspected horses .— 
They should be divided into three classes, the first composed of 
those who are undeniably and confirmedly glandered, and who 
should be at once destroyed ; the second including those in which 
there are symptoms of incipient disease ; and the third, those w ho 
have been in communication with glandered horses, and therefore 
may be considered as suspected. 
VII. The first class. —M. Chabert recommends that the ca¬ 
rotids should be opened, or air blown into the jugulars, neither 
of which will produce any change in the appearance of the viscera ; 
he then gives at considerable length directions for conducting the 
post-mortem examination, and orders that the skin should be 
always buried with the animal. He particularly insists on this 
in large towns, which may be considered as the focus of the 
disease, and in which it is always breaking out; and he refers to 
the careless transport of the skins, the different hands through 
which they pass, and the exhalations which proceed from them, 
and which he considers as a principal source of the contagion. 
We think, however, that too much stress is laid on this; for if the 
skin is once exposed to the action of lime, or even sprinkled 
with chloride of lime, all danger will cease. 
VIII. The second class. The treatment of glandered horses .— 
The first and most important thing is to attempt to discover the 
cause of the malady, and then most scrupulously to remove it. 
Without this indispensable preliminary, the greatest sacrifices, 
and the minutest precautions, and the most methodical treatment, 
will often fail. The plan recommended by M. Chabert will not 
be applicable to all cases, but the grand principles which he 
states will guide the veterinarian through every difficulty. 
IX. Care and regimen. —These are of more importance than is 
