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stable escaped detection for a long while. One remarkable case he 
remembered hearing detailed at a previous meeting. The disease had 
broken out among the Duke of Salisbury’s horses, and a veterinary 
surgeon was sent for. He minutely examined all the horses and stables 
without detecting the cause. He then inquired if he had seen all, and 
was informed he had. He could not account for the outbreak and 
again made inquiry, and was told there was only one more horse, the 
Duke of Wellington’s old charger, which was allowed to run out, and 
was pensioned off. He asked for him to be brought, and found it to be 
a most confirmed case of glanders. 
Mr. Banfiam thought inspectors should have no other duties, and 
that a private practitioner could not conscientiously perform the duty 
of an inspector. As regarded stables, he agreed with Mr. Hunting. 
Some persons believed glanders to be a fixed virus, others thought it 
volatile. He thought it should be considered volatile. 
The Chairman said he read with profit Mr. Broad’s paper in the 
Veterinary Journal , and had enjoyed the discussion that evening. His 
experience of glanders and farcy was rather limited compared to several 
of the speakers. Since coming to the neighbourhood of London he had 
unfortunately seen too much of these diseases, and from the facts brought 
out in discussion it seemed to him London was the producing centre or 
hot-bed for the disease. All the cases he had seen in his district could 
be traced to its source in London, or from horses sent down to graze; 
felt convinced drinking troughs were a great source of its spread, the same 
as it had been alleged drinking fountains are a source of disease to the 
human family. 
Regarding the question of temperature of the discharge in this disease, 
as a means of diagnosis, he could not speak confidently, having never 
tried it, but thought it would very much depend upon where it was 
taken from and the exposure it had been subjected to, and great pre¬ 
cision would be necessary to enable a correct conclusion to be drawn 
from this test, so as to form it into a diagnostic symptom. There was 
another subject relating to the diagnosis of this disease, and one which 
had been frequently regarded as diagnostic, that had not been referred 
to that evening, viz. the density of the discharge. This was first noticed, 
he believed, by the late Professor Barlow, who taught that the dis¬ 
charge from a glandered subject was very heavy and sank in water, 
while the nasal discharge from a common cold or influenza would float 
in water, the explanation being the excess of albuminous material in 
the glander discharge. This test he had known to have been used in 
courts of law to ascertain the presence or absence of the disease, but he 
considered it rather misleading and not to be depended upon ; and, as 
stated by Mr. Hunting, there were no thoroughly differential diagnostic 
symptoms of the disease; and frequently, if we wait until the nature of 
the discharge or ulceration of membranes enables us to give a definite 
opinion, the subject may have done any quantity of mischief to the 
stable or the animals he may have been in contact with. Hence the 
necessity of dealing early with a suspicious case, and acting as much 
upon negative as positive evidence of the disease. 
With respect to disinfectants, he believed good might be accomplished 
by using such an apparatus as Mr. Sheather had exhibited in destroying 
the germs or purifying the atmosphere of the stable, or, at least, some 
stables, such as we find under railway arches and such like, where it 
frequently breaks out, or where the air is still and no draught exists. 
This principle Mr. Greaves, of Manchester, introduced to tlieir notice a 
few years since, by burning large quantities of fuel in some of those 
