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SEAT AND NATURE OF GLANDERS. 



In pursuing our investigations through the division of our 

 subject at which we are now arrived, we anticipate more diffi- 

 culty in coming to sound pathological conclusions than we ex- 

 perienced in agitating the question of the contagiousness of 

 glanders. We shall set about the inquiry by first shewing what 

 progress our science has made in developing the true seat and 

 nature of the disease, by — as on a former occasion — collecting 

 the accounts of authors on the subject from the earliest periods down 

 to the present ; and this will be found to furnish us with a body 

 of information from which we may, at least, safely deduce two 

 facts, which are, — that veterinarians of the present age are pretty 

 generally agreed as to the seat of glanders, though, touching its 

 nature, almost every point of the pathological compasses of humour- 

 ism and solidism seems to have been, at one time or another, touched 

 at by them, by way of affording some sort of satisfactory explana- 

 tion of the phenomena exhibited by glanders and farcy. 



Lafosse (senior) in his ''preface" to his "Treatise upon the 

 true seat of glanders in horses," states, that '' great was his sur- 

 prise, when he found that such distemper was not only unknown 

 to the ancients, but that it was altogether « new disorder, and did not 

 appear in Europe till about the year 1494." — " Twas at the siege 

 of Naples, after the arrival of the Spaniards from their discoveries 

 in America, that glanders in horses appeared for the first time." 



" Parazzer is the first author who has mentioned it, — he himself 

 was at the siege; and the Spanish authors are the first who have 

 given us the history of this disease, which they term MuoRMO*." 



Dupuy, however, in his prefatory history — ''partie histo- 

 rique" — contradicts this account on the authority of MM. Masse 

 and Jourdain, two French veterinary writers who have been at 

 the pains to translate the writings of the Greek hippiatrists, and 

 from whom, he says, we learn that the father of medicine himself, 



* A Treatise upon the True Seat of Glanders in Horses, together 

 with the Method of Cure, &c. with cuts. By M. Dc La Fosse, master 

 farrier of Paris, and farrier to the King's Stables, 17ol. 



