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with the most scrupulous attention to all the circumstances, which 

 have been, so amply insisted on, in the chapter on the treatment of 

 the former disease. 



I have seen no instance of Glanders, in which bleeding, or the use 

 of purging physic, were ever indicated. Much solicitude is, gene- 

 ralI3^ evinced, by those unacquainted with the true cause of them, 

 about the diseased Glands, or kernels, , as they are called, under the 

 jaw, and some have even gone so far as to propose the cutting of 

 them out. But any expectation of advantage from such an opera- 

 tion, could have originated only from the most profound ignorance, 

 of the real nature of the disease. Just as wise, indeed, would it 

 be, (confining ourselves simply to this view of the subject) for a 

 Surgeon to propose extirpating a bubo in the groin, in order to rid 

 the patient of the syphilitic poison, as to expect the cure of Glan- 

 ders, from the operation of cutting out the diseased glands, under 

 the jaw. There is, moreover, some danger to be apprehended from 

 the loss of blood attendant on the operation* and I have been informed 

 of one well-authenticated cause where the Horse died in conse- 

 quence of the hcemorrhage, which took place from such an attempt. 



But, as it is always expected that something should be done to 

 these diseased Glands, in the way of external application, they may 

 be repeatedly blistered, or (which is still better practice) slightly 

 fired, in order to promote the process of absorption. Nevertheless, 

 it is still right for us to keep in mind, that it is with these diseased 

 tumours, as it is with ulcers in the nostrils ; in other words, that they 

 are but a symptom of the constitutional disease ; and therefore we 

 find in all cases where Horses recover from Glanders, that not only 

 does the running from the nostrils cease, but, the diseased GiOja- 



