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

166 The Management and Treatment of the Horse,
could take it in its food and water, and wash its nose
and legs with salt and water. With the same view we
hear of sulphate of iron being given in tiie water, the
pail being suspended in the stable for the animal to
drink at pleasure. I have given the above upon the
authority of Mr Hinde, but wT e have known it tried
without effect. Whether this loathsome and fatal
disease has its origin in the deteriorated atmosphere of
stables is a problem that has not yet been solved, there
is little doubt, however, that a strong preventitive is
found in a clean, cool, well-aired stable, and exposing
the horse as much as possible to the influence of the
atmosphere. The glanders is unknown among the
Arabian horses, in South America, and in Circassia,
where horses are not confined in stables. As a word of
caution to all my readers who may have to buy horses
at fairs from dealers of whom they know nothing, it
is necessary they should have their eyes open because
by infamous trickery they too frequently use means
to deceive the purchaser. Tt is a well-known fact
that if a glandered horse is galloped hard the increased
action of the lungs in breathing will thoroughly drive
the mucous substance out of the nostrils, and to make
it continue dry for a time they blow up the diseased
nostril (the left) powdered allum, or white vitrol, but
a little attention will enable anyone to see that the
animal is in pain and will make ineffectual attempts to
sneeze. The foetid smell, so different from any other
discharge, will convince even the inexperienced person
that the horse is glandered.
A favourite trick of the horse dealer is to gallop the
horse in the morning before brinedno" it to the fair.