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consisting in stopping up the nostril of the affected side with a piece 

 of sponge, which, of course, received and imbibed the discharge." 



" Though we have no specific remedy for chronic glanders, no 

 more than we have for acute, the Professor has seen more cases of 

 recovery from this than from the latter disease. When the dis- 

 charge early in this affection becomes profuse, and continues long 

 so, it will end, every now and then, in a spontaneous cure, as is 

 the case so often with gonorrhoea : at other times, the flux will 

 persist and run for years, and the horse, so long as the disease 

 continues chronic, maintain his full health. Many horses of this 

 description are to be found in various parts of the country working 

 in road waggons, brick carts, farmers' establishments, &c. Not- 

 withstanding that the disease is not only incurable, but is con- 

 tagious. The matter emitted from the nose of a horse having 

 chronic glanders has the property of propagating, through contact, 

 either acute or chronic glanders, or even both." 



Feron, 1803, in discarding the notions of Lafosse, gives a very 

 imperfect outline of such as were entertained, in his day, by 

 Coleman. He tells us, " the disorder may be divided into two 

 states, the one chronic, and the other acute. The first is easily dis- 

 tinguished from the other, as the running at the nose is but trifling, 

 and of a very transparent colour, and no ulcers at the nose are yet 

 observable ; whilst in the second case, or in the acute stage, the 

 running and the ulcers in the nose have a very offensive smell," &c. 

 The earliest stage of the disease '' I call chronic^'' 



Shipp, 1808, among his " Cases in Farriery" relates but one of 

 glanders ; and that occurred in a horse " belonging to a glazier of 

 Doncaster;" from which solitary instance we are led to infer, either 

 that glanders was unknown in his own regiments, or that he had 

 kept no records of any military occurrences of the kind. The case 

 itself is only worthy of mention as shewing the author's belief that 

 the horse " might live many years with the disease, and in that 

 time contaminate a great number of (other) good horses," &ct. 



* A New System of Farriery, by John Feron, veterinary surgeon 13th 

 Light Dragoons. 1803. 



t Cases in Farriery, by John Shipp, veterinary surgeon 23d Light Dragoons. 



1808. 



