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ACUTE SUPPURATIVE DISEASE IN A COW. 
CONTAGIOUSNESS OF GLANDERS. 
With the view of shedding light on the important ques¬ 
tion of the contagiousness of glanders, we would submit the 
following deductions from facts brought forth by our own 
experience.—E d. Vet. 
1. That farcy and glanders, which constitute the same 
disease, are propagable through the medium of stabling, and 
this we believe to be the more usual way in which the dis¬ 
ease is communicated from horse to horse. 
2. That infected stabling may harbour and retain the 
infection for months, or even years ; and though by tho¬ 
roughly cleansing and making use of certain disinfecting 
means, the contagion may probably be destroyed, it would 
not perhaps be wise to occupy such stables immediately after 
such supposed or alleged disinfection. 
3. That the virus (or poison of glanders) may lie for 
months in a state of incubation in the horse's constitution, 
before the disease breaks out. We have had the most indu¬ 
bitable evidence of its lurking in one horse’s system for the 
space of fifteen weeks. 
4. That when a stud or stable of horses becomes conta¬ 
minated, the disease often makes fearful ravages among them 
before it quits them; and it is only after a period of several 
months’ exemption from all disease of the kind that a clean 
bill of health can be safely rendered. 
ACUTE SUPPURATIVE DISEASE IN A COW. 
By G. Lewis, V.S., Monmouth. 
On the 6th instant, I was requested by Mr. Williams, of 
Red House Farm, near this town, to see a milking cow 
which had been ill for some days. Mr. Williams, a very 
intelligent man, who from long experience and observation 
has acquired a tolerable knowledge of the nature and treat¬ 
ment of many of the ordinary diseases of cattle, had, upon 
perceiving her “ ailing,” given some aperient medicine, which 
had acted upon the bowels, but had failed to be productive 
of the good effects he anticipated. There was considerable 
enlargement of the anterior and inferior portion of the 
