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in the blood; which, perhaps, continuing for a considerable time 

 unperceived, at last shews itself by a swelling of the glands under 

 the jaw-bones, and a running at the nose, without any other visible 

 sign of sickness or disease; and this is '' ivhat properly constitides 

 the glanders in the horse, and is either of the scrophulous kind, the 

 same with the evil, or else cancerous; both which I have met with in 

 practice, and may be either hereditary, or the effect of hard labour 

 and bad keeping*.'' 



Reeves, a farrier at Ringwood, Hants, who about this time, 

 1763, published a veterinary workt under the eye of a physician, 

 looked upon glanders, as Lafosse did, as " properly an inflamma- 

 tion of the pituitary membrane ;" running into the same errors 

 about the " kinds" of glanders Lafosse did, and adopting his mode 

 of cure by injection. 



Bracken, 1769, assures us, he '^ cannot describe the glanders 

 better than Mr. Gibson has done ; to wit, * that it is a flux or run- 

 ning of corrupt matter from the nose of a horse, which matter is of 

 different colours ; as white, yellow, green, or black, according to 

 the degree of malignancy, or according as the distemper has been 

 of long or short contmuance.' — " I know but of one inseparable 

 sign of glanders, and that is inflammation or swelling of the glands 

 about the throat or behind the ears. And as to what Sol ley sell, 

 Blundeville, and others, write about the mourning of the chine or 

 consumption of the brain and spinal marrow, &c., it is a pack of 

 nonsense." — " I take Mr. Snape's account of the glanders not to be 

 very defective ; only I cannot agree with him in one thing, that is, 



and yet no harm happen. On the other hand, I have known a glandered 

 horse infect every one that has stood near him in the same stable ; and I 

 have also known sound horses carried into a stable where glandered horses 

 have stood, and by that means catched the infection, though the stable has 

 been cleaned and aired before they were brought into it ; and other horses, 

 that have been set up along with them in the same stable, and in the very 

 stalls where the glandered horses stood, have escaped the infection." — 

 Op. infra cit. 



* A New Treatise on the Diseases of Horses. By Wm. Gibson, Surgeon, 

 1754, 2d edit. 



t The Art of Farriery, both in Theory and Practice, &c. &c. By Mr. 

 John Reeves, Farrier at Ringwood, Hants. The whole revised, corrected, 

 and enlarged, by a Physician. Second edition, 1763. 



