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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    ouly from glanders, the whole history of the disease, its methods of spread, its symptoms and nature, its pecu- liarities, and its prevention, become tolerably clear to us, hut on any other theory everything is contradictory and confusing. The Specific Poison. The poison of glanders, I have said, lives and grows in the body of the horse, and may be cultivated in favorable conditions out of the body. It may too, remain inactive hut still potent under certain conditions. Just as seeds retain their vitality when dry, or may under other circumstances die and rot, so the poison of glanders retains its vitality under some conditions, but dies and decomposes under others. Like a seed, too, it may be killed. The conditions favorable or unfavorable to its existence are important, and although we do not know them all, we know sufficient to assist us in framing- measures of protection against it. The poison of glanders is not volatile.—It has long been recognised by practical observers that a horse may remain stabled with glandered horses for months and yet not take the disease. He breathes the same air and is submitted to every other condition that affects the whole stable of horses, but he is fortunate in not