298 GLANDERS. 



stood by the appellation of glanders ; e\^ery 

 stagnant, acrimonious, or putrid matter, is 

 possessed of this property, and more parti- 

 cularly when lodged (or by sinuses confined) 

 upon any particular part. Divested of pro- 

 fessional TRICK, CHICANEilY, and DECEP-r 

 TioN, this is the incontrovertible explana-^ 

 lion, whether proceeding from an ulceration 

 of the lungs, or the inveterate glandular dis- 

 charges from the head (where the case is of 

 long standing, and the bone carious) they 

 are equally incurable. Persevering in my 

 opinion, long since quoted, ihdit prevention is 

 preferable to cure, I shall point out such 

 methods as are the most eligible to adopts 

 upon the bare apprehension of such com- 

 plaint, or any disorder that may be likely to 

 terminate in a disease of so much difficulty, 

 expense, and danger. 



In respect to the medical and domestic 

 manac^ement ; where the lun^s are the seat 

 of disease, as in the first attack of coughs, 

 &c. directions so clear and explanatory are 

 laid down through the whole of the sixth 

 class, that there is not the least room to add 

 a single addition upon the subject ; to that 

 class, under its diiferent heads, I refer the 



