260 SEAT AND NATURE OF GLANDERS. 



Mood, where it is introduced by various means ?" This author 

 seems to have had an impression that glanders and farcy were but 

 the same disease; for he says, " the first stage of glanders \s farcy 

 in the head, and the last stage of a farcy in the head is a confirmed 

 glanders*.'' 



Taplin, 1791, after, in his own peculiar happy vein of irony, 

 holding Lafosse, and '' his trumpeter, Bartlett," up to ridicule for 

 the notions of " the seven different kinds of glanders," and " the 

 cures almost incredible," through trepanning, syringing, &c., that 

 were said to be performed, gliding from the eminence of satire 

 *' gently into the vale of reason," informs us, as his own opinion 

 on the subject, "that any corrosive matter discharged from the 

 nostrils, and suffered to continue for a length of time, so as to con- 

 stitute ulcerations and corrode the bones, will degenerate into, and 

 constitute, the disease generally understood by the appellation of 

 glanders : every stagnant, acrimonious, or putrid matter is pos- 

 sessed of this property, and more particularly when lodged (or by 

 sinuses confined) upon any particular part" — " whether proceeding 

 from an ulceration of the lungs, or the inveterate glandular dis- 

 charges from the head (where the case is of long standing, and the 

 bone carious), they are equally incur ablet ." 



St. Bel, 1792, the first Professor of the Veterinary College of 

 London, adopted the opinions and practice of Lafosse on the subject 

 of glanders ; and so, his experiments at Lyons, detailed here after 

 his death, exhibit a series of nasal injections, united with antimo- 

 nial and mercurial preparations by the mouth, &c|. 



The late Professor COLEMAN made a division of glanders 

 into acute and chronic. " That form or kind is acute which, like 

 other acute diseases, proceeds regularly through its course and 

 ends in death ; that chronic, which, so long as it continues so, will 

 not destroy the animal. This is illustrated by what happens in 

 chancre, bubo, and (venereal) gonorrhoea : one requires the adminis- 

 tration of mercury, the other will in time run itself dry." 



*' Acute glanders may be defined to be, a specific inflamma- 



* A Practical Treatise on Farriery ; from the management of the late Mr. 

 Snape, farrier to their Majesties and to the second troop of Horse Guards. 

 t The Gentleman's Stable Directory, by Wm. Taplin, Surgeon. 1791. 

 X This account is taken from Mr. Blaine. Op. cit., p. 218. 



