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sb'uma is not a disease of the people. It is a domestic disease. 

 The assignable causes are many, among which may be enumer- 

 ated starvation, filth, and debilitating diseases, as strangles, catarrh 

 and lung-fever, or, indeed, any disease capable of generating pus; 

 and this pus being absorbed into the general circulation, thus 

 forming a Ferment, a Zumin, or a Leaven, as the Bible has it, 

 within the blood, the effort of nature to get rid of this offending 

 matter is seen in the ulcerations of the lining membrane of the 

 nose. The recent experiments of Professor Giovanni Polli, of 

 Milan, seem to corroborate this view, as he has produced glanders 

 and other Zymotic diseases in seventy dogs, by injecting into their 

 blood in some cases fetid bullock's blood, pus, and glandered pro- 

 ducts, and neutralizing the ferment so set up by the administration 

 of an alkaline sulphite — a new intero-chemical doctrine — on the 

 principle of arresting the vinous fermentation set up in a vessel of 

 cider by adding to it a preparation of lime. The experiments of 

 this distinguished professor, enable the veterinary surgeon to ex- 

 tend his usefulness, and the domestic physician to snatch man}" a 

 useful life from an early grave. How many brave men have stood 

 the storm of battle in the late war — were admitted to the hospital 

 with perhaps a shattered bone — amputation was performed, the 

 case did well for a few days. The kind-hearted surgeon saw a 

 change for the worse : appetite gone, the rigor and chill super- 

 vened till it was too plainly seen that the pus from the stump had 

 been absorbed into the blood of the unfortunate man ; fermenta- 

 tion was set up, and death staring him in the face, there was no 

 power to save. The discovery of a ferment and its antidote have 

 changed the scene from death to that of life. So, likewise, the 

 veterinary surgeons, however ignorant and slow some of them are 

 to see and understand, it will enable them to preserve the life of 

 many a useful animal to its owner, thus adding very materially 

 to the happiness and prosperity of this great and prosperous 

 people. 



Glanders are recognized by ulceration of the lining membrane 

 of the nose, or the formation of pustules, and commonly situated 

 in the septum nasi. These pustules soon ulcerate and discharge 

 pus of a greenish color, rapidl}^ drying up when spread over the 

 nostrils, and sinking in water, owing, as is supposed, to its con- 



