134 GLANDERS. SYMPTOMS OF THE TRUE GLANDERSi 



is neilher so white nor of so much consistency as the true sort; but watei ♦ 

 and curdled. The animal scarcely ever is troubled with a cough, and then ' 

 is very feeble , but to make up for this exhibits frequent contractions of th 

 larynx. 



After the tumour is opened, give gentle physic, for which purpose the laxa 

 tive ball recommended in page 132 will answer every desirable purpose ; a 

 you may add thereto one drachm of emetic tartar, and give another ball aftei 

 an interval of one day, unless the pulse is low. 



Bastard Strangles is a favourite term with some persons, who would 

 soften down the real fact of their horses having the glanders, which it really 

 is, and not strangles. But bastard or not bastard, it is always infectious, and 

 the animal either dies of strangulation, or the disorder becomes the glandersj 

 producing a sanious discharge from the nose when the cough ceases. Apply a 



Fumigation. 



Take the leaves and root of marsh-mallows, an arm-full. 

 "Water, 6 quarts. 



Boil them, and put the whole into a nose bag, and hang it round the head of 

 the animal to make him inhale the steam. The bag may be made of stout 

 cloth, but hung with the upper part quite open, to avoid suffocarion. Leave 

 the bag at the animal's nose until no more steam will arise. This will be 

 found a very proper remedy in all cases of strangles, the lirst stage of glan- 

 ders, and obstinate colds. 



GLANDERS. 



For aoout twenty years I apprehended that we had arrived within a short 

 apace of finding the true cause of gland<!rs, and that we should then soon as- 

 certain the means of preventing our horses from engendering the malady, if 

 we could not avoid their catching it. nor discover a specific remedy. But, lol 

 we were not yet agreed even as to the symptoms of true glanders; as to that 

 which was communicable and dangerous, compared witli another affection of 

 the glands and pituitarj* membrane, which was but a temporary disease, not 

 easily communicated, and was asserted to come within the reach of the cura- 

 tive art. Most small proprietors, unwilling to destroy their afflicted horses, 

 maintained that they belonged to the latter description, and in this they were 

 frequently supported by the cupidity of practising farriers, who administered 

 medicines and performed operations with a confidence which never could be- 

 long to any department of science — and least of all to that of medicine,* which 

 is, alas! ever uncertain. 



During this state of the question, we turned to the French veterinarians, 

 who up to a certain period enjoyed the reputation of being superior to all Eu- 

 rope besides in this and a few other pursuits [war and chemistry, videlicet], 



* Much inhumanity was shown by the country practitioners in their mode of treatment • 

 they scraped the bone after emitting the nostril ; and also seared the swelled gland with a hrt 

 iron. A late writer applauds the practice of searing ulcers and abscesses, generally, " where^ 

 by (adds he triumphantly) they are reduced to common scalds :" he was then speaking of the 

 doctors in Morocco! mere Turks. The gentleman, probably, did not distinguish between ab- 

 scess and indolent tumour. 



It is related by La Fosse, that in 1801, several regiments in Alsace arid Loraine employed the 

 iMJtual cautery a?i a cure for glandered horses. Some " applied fire to the j ugular gland in three 

 ones; oJiers cauterized the bones of the forehead and nose ; but the most ridiculous affair of 

 ftll was, to see forty horses together which had fire applied round their eyelids ,'o cure the run- 

 ning,'" that )9 common to all glandular aft'ections about the head ' 



