AN INQUIRY. 
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four children, have been rapidly attacked one after another with 
the malady,” glanders. (Bollinger, ibid , article Glanders.) 
Now, it would be presumption merely were we to attempt to 
describe how this glandered meat was served to the soldiers dur¬ 
ing the famine of which we have been speaking, or that it even 
constituted a part of their diet at all, for we have nowhere read 
of anything that would justify us in making a statement like this; 
yet one thing, we think, will be admitted by all, viz: that we 
have theoretically, at least, accounted in the first place for the 
sudden outbreak of the epidemic in question, and, secondly, for 
its singular and destructive nature, and it now only remains to be 
determined, from what follows, whether this plague could have 
been produced by glanders conveyed from the horse to man after 
the manner indicated, or in any other manner, for that matter,the 
relation of the diseases 07ily being the point in question. 
What glanders is, and what are its effects on man and soli- 
peds will next occupy our attention, but it may be well to state 
in the beginning that the subject is considered at such length 
(and necessarily so for its proper understanding) in the works we 
have quoted from, that we must refer those who desire more 
minute information to this source, and content ourselves with the 
more salient points of description. 
GLANDERS IN HORSES. 
“ The most formidable of all the diseases to which the horse 
is subject,” says Youatt (On the Horse, p. 121) “is glanders. It 
was described by writers fifteen hundred years ago, and it was 
then and is now not only a loathsome but an incurable disease.” 
Gamgee writes (Reynolds’ System of Medicine, vol. I, p. 183) 
“ This disease appears to affect the horse in all parts of the world, 
although perhaps it is modified to a certain extent by climatic 
and other agencies. In the deserts of Arabia it is said not to 
possess the dreadful characteristics which distinguish it elsewhere, 
and is a comparatively rare disease. It may occur under four 
forms, as 1st, chronic glanders ; 2d, acute glanders ; 3d, chronic 
farcy ; 4th, acute farcy, Chronic glanders is the most common 
form affecting the Jiorse. Jt is propagated by contagion and hb 
