i68 Tbt Art 0/ Farriery 



Our ancient Farriers treat very oddly of this Dlf- 

 eafe, imagining the Seat of it fometimes in the 

 Lungs, at other Times in the Brain, if^c. and par- 

 ticularly De Grey tells us, " that before a Farrier 

 *^ can perfectly cure the Glanders, he muil free the 

 *' Horfe from manifold and fundry Difeafes, which 

 *' accompany them j fuch as Confumption of the 

 *' Flefli and Lungs, Griefs and Aches in the Head, 

 ** Inflammation under the Joul, Difeafes in the 

 ** Liver, Purfivenefs, Hide-bound, Dropfy, Swell' d 

 " Legs, iffcr 



Now out of all thefe, I know but one infeparable 

 Sign of the Glanders, to wit, Inflammation or Swel- 

 ling of the Glands about the Throat, and behind 

 the Ears. And as to what Monfleur 5<?//^y/^/, Blun- 

 de<ville, and others, write about the Mo/^rw/w^o/'/^^ 

 Chine or Confumption of the Brain and Spinat Mar- 

 row, which runs all through the Vertehr^e or Bones 

 of the Neck, Back, Loins, feV. it is a Pack of 

 Nonfenfe ; though indeed we have a Diftemper in 

 Human Bodies which goes by the Name of Tahes 

 Dor falls, and implies a Wafting or Confumption of 

 the Spinal Marrow : But I believe this Term was 

 moftly in Ufe when the Knowledge of Phyfick was 

 in its Infancy : For, what the Ancients fuppofed to 

 be a Wafliing of the Marrow in the Back, was no- 

 thing more than a Gonorrhcsa Simplex or Simple Gon. 

 without any Virulency, or Infeflious Quality in the 

 Running ; and the Pain in tliis Cafe moftly affefting 

 tlie Loins, they therefore judged the Marrow to be 

 wafljng : But to return to the Glanders in Horfes. 



I take Mr. Snape's Account of the Glanders not 

 to be very defeftive ; only I cannot agree with him 

 in one Thing, that is, in this Diftemper's being 

 contagious or infe£tious ; for he might as well fay 

 that we catch Colds, Confumptions, ^c. by Infec- 

 tion : No ; what made him as well as others believe 

 this Difeiife of an infedious Nature, was the epide- 

 mical Conftitution of the Air, which, more at fome 

 particular Times than others (as we find by daily 



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