The management and treatment of the horse in the stable, field, and ...

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caution was taken and everything done for him that
medical science could suggest, he died in a few days after
suffering untold agony." Numerous other cases can be
quoted of men dying of this malignant disease, but the
two cases above are enough to show how necessary it is
to proceed with the utmost caution, if it is only expected
that a horse is inflicted with glanders. The remote
cause of glanders is we fear to be found in ill-ventilated
and badly drained stables ;
there the ammonia from the
urine fills the whole atmosphere, which being constantly
inhaled ultimately produces a poisonous effect upon the
lungs, caused by an undue quantity of ox}^gen being
inhaled ; besides the constant irritation which it must
naturally produce upon that delicate portion of the
mucous membrane, which is the organ of smell, it
induces the formation of those tubercles which once
formed can never be eradicated. We find that glanders
almost always breaks out in ill-ventilated stables, and
which are likewise kept too hot. Fracture of the nasal
bone has been said to produce it in some few instances,
as well as a long continued and inveterate catarrah with
a constant and irritating discharge from the nostrils. We
find that in the lofty w ell-aired stables of gentlemen this
disease is comparatively little known, and when it does
shew itself in such it has in all probability been intro-
duced by some fresh importation to the stud of one or
more horses previously affected. In such a case all the
animals in the stable may catch the malady, as
glanders is well known to be highly contagious. In
many of the crowded and ill-aired stables of London
and other large towns this disease is but too often an