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I sliould be more ready to commit my professional reputation upon, 

 than of the utter inutility of injections, in Glanders. 



For, if they be composed of mild and bland materials, they are 

 inert and inefficacious; and if made of such as are acrid and stimu- 

 lating", they must inevitably do mischief. The Glanders we must 

 recollect is a constitutional, not a local disease, and, therefore, if it 

 admit of a cure at all, that cure must be effected by such means as 

 act upon the constitution of the animal. 



Having premised thus much, I proceed now to the consideration 

 of the measures which ought to be adopted, in our attempts to 

 cure the Glanders. 



From what is gone before, the reader is prepared to expect, that 

 I should lay it down as a fundamental axiom that all our endeavours 

 to cure the disease will prove abortive, unless the Horse have the 

 advantage of being at grass, or, at least, of being placed in such a 

 situation, as to be enabled to breathe a cool and pure atmosphere. 

 For, although green food is un questionably advantageous, in the cure 

 of Glanders, yet, the grand desideratum is, an atmosphere that iscooli 

 and free from any admixture of that highly pernicious salt, volatile 

 alkali, which I consider to be one of the most noxious agents in the 

 air of our stables, and the great predisposing cause of the disease. 



Hence, there was some ingenuity, as well as novelty, in the notion 

 which was taken up several years ago, by a gentleman of my ac- 

 quaintance, who advised the operation of bronchotomy, and the in- 

 troduction of a tube into the opening of the windpipe, with a view 

 to the cure of Glanders ; from a persuasion that the stimulus of the 

 air, passing through the nose, might keep up the irritation in the nos- 

 trils, and thus prove the means of preventing, the healing of the 



