Chap. XXVIII. Of the Glanders, Sec. roi 



" away by this inveterate Diftemper. By what Steps it 

 " proceeds, and how the Matter comes to alter its Colour, 

 '' I will give you my Opinion. 



" The Mafs of Blood being; depraved, either by un- 

 " wholfome Food, or by great Colds, or Laftly, by In- 

 " fedion from the Air, and from other Horfes (Tor this 

 " Diftemper is catching) this phlegmatick Matter colled- 

 " ed in it, is fpued out of the Ends of the Arteries in the 

 " upper Part of the Noflrils, about the Tpongy Bones chief- 

 *' ly; for in an Horfe there is little of this Matter comes 

 " out of the Mouth, but it flill defcends by the Noftrils. 

 *' This Humour, I fay, diftilling out of the Arteries by 

 *' the fpongy Bones continually, doth in Procefs of Time 

 " fo fill the faid Bones with filthy A/Iatter, that, like a 

 *' Sink or Channel, being choaked up with Filth, there is 

 '' not fo free a Paflage for the Humour, as when the Dif- 

 *' eafe firft began ; fo that the Matter by that Means is 

 *' there ftay'd, and by its Continuance there it acquires fo 

 *' bad a Qtiality, that it corrodes and cankers thofe Bones, 

 '' and indeed ulcerates and gangrenes all the PafTages of 

 " the Noftrils, till it has mortify'd and confum'd them (as 

 " happens fometimes to Venereal Perfons) and at length de- 

 ** ftroy'd the Beaft ; for indeed it is felddm or never cura- 

 *' ble, when it is once come truly to be a Canker. 



" Now by the Foulnefs of thefe Bones (as I have faid) 

 <' that Matter or Snot which doth defcend by thefe Paf- 

 " fages (which indeed doth at length drivel down in a 

 " greater Qiiantity than before, by reafon of the PafTages 

 " being widen'd, from the Parts being gnawn afunder by 

 *' the canker'd Humour) I fay, that Matter or Snot, 

 " which defcends after this, is of a contrary Colour to 

 " what it ufed to be ; for it is become more black and 

 " waterifh, mixed with a litJe red, and hath a very ill 

 *' Smell ; but this Alteration happens not from the Mat- 

 *' ter's flowing from a new Part, but is caufed by reafon of 

 '' the Foulnefs of the Parts through which it palTeth ; for 

 " from thence it hath its Dye in a great Degree. 



" Notbrt yet there is another Caufe of it, which is the 

 *' greater Foulnefs of the Blood ; for as the Beginning of the 

 " Diftemper did proceed from the Corruption or Depra- 

 '' vation of the Blood, which was become, as it were, de- 

 " generate from its fpirituous, balfamick, and volatilized 

 I" Condition, into a fiat and vapid State, like to dead Wine ; 

 ^' fo in Procefs of Tim.e, for \7ant of the Spirits to quicken 

 P 5 " it. 



