Glanders : how its arises and spreads how to prevent it and how to stamp it out / by William Hunting.

  • Hunting, William.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Glanders : how its arises and spreads how to prevent it and how to stamp it out / by William Hunting. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    countries its first appearance can be traced, but in all European states its origin is lost in tbe distant past. In Europe, no great campaign bas ever terminated without glanders appearing amongst the horses of cavalry or transport. On the conclusion of peace, both the opposing armies have carried home the disease, and spread it far and wide through their respective countries. The armies in the Crimea suffered fearfully. The horses in the Franco-Prussian war not only fell victims to the disease on active service, but for years after the con- clusion of peace the movements and sale of these animals caused numerous outbreaks all over Germany and France. Great loss from glanders accompanied the armies engaged in the American Civil War, and our own army has suffered grievously in every campaign on record, except perhaps the last Zulu war. The last war in Afghanistan entailed a loss of 63,000 animals, and although I do not know what causes led to this frightful mortality, I have no doubt glanders was one of them. Even peaceful autumn manoeuvres cannot be completed without an outbreak of the malady and its consequent dissemination over the country, on the the break-up of the camps, by the sale and distribution of cast horses. It has been the custom to account for all this as the inevitable sequel of the hardships incidental to camp life, and the fatigues induced by long and arduous marches.