glandered

Closely allied to this is infection by inhaling the exhalations of glandered horses, and this doubtless accounts for some few cases which have been recorded as communicated through the unbroken skin.

The bite of the glandered horse is a rare means of infection.

From infection by eating glandered animals man is usually saved by the cooking of his food and by his inherent power of resistance, yet with instances of this kind on record, as recorded by Ringheim, and the well-known conveyance of the disease to animals in this way, it would be folly to ignore the risk to man from eating the flesh of glandered horses, sheep, goats, and rabbits.

Among the mediate forms of contagion may be named drinking from the same pail or trough after a glandered horse, using a knife that has been employed to open a glanderous abscess, wiping a wound with an infected blanket or handkerchief, handling infected harness, wagon-pole, or manger with wounded hands, sleeping over glandered horses or in a stall or on litter previously used by such horses.

Fortunately, the susceptibility of man is slight, but few out of the multitudes handling glandered horses becoming infected.