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vium Atticum. Veterinary surgeons recognize two varie- 

 ties of Equinia in tlie horse, viz. : Equinia mitis, contrac-« 

 ted from horses with greasy heels (Paronychia Equi), and 

 Equinia Glandulosa, a dangerous disease, and readily com- 

 municated to man. Glanders is unknown at the tropics 

 and at the poles, and is not seen where struma is not a dis- 

 ease of the people. It is a domestic disease. The assigna- 

 ble causes are many, among which may be enumerated 

 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, Avithin the blood, the effort of na- 

 ture to get rid of this offending matter is seen in the 

 ulcerations of the lining membranes of the nose. The re- 

 cent experiments of Professor Giovanni Polli, of IMilan, 

 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 products, 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 add- 

 ing to it a preparation of lime. The experiments of this 

 distinguished professor, enable the veterinary surgeon to 

 extend his usefulness, and the domestic physician to snatch 

 many a useful life from an early grave. How many brave 

 men have stood the storm of battle in the late war — were ad- 

 mitted to the hospital with perhaps a shattered bone — am- 

 putation was performed, the case did well for a few days. 

 The kind-hearted surgeon saw a change for the worse ; appe- 

 tite gone, the rigor and chill supervened till it was too plainly 

 seen that the pus from the stump had been absorbed into the 



