2(5G SEAT AND NATURE OF GLANDEIIS. 



Peall, the Irish veterinary Professor, 1814, iiiibibing the more 

 correct pathological views of glanders and farcy which had been 

 formed by Coleman, surprises us when we find him saying, that, 

 "in a practical point of view, it is not very material to inquire 

 whether the farcy and glanders (which he regarded as the same 

 disease) originate in the arterial or the lymphatic system* /" 



SMITH, Veterinary Surgeon to the 2d Dragoon Guards, pub- 

 lished in 1818 the results of his observations, in his regiment, on 

 glanderst, which, as we have already seen, are chiefly interesting 

 to us on account of the pertinacity with which he, on the strength 

 of the facts and cases he adduces, argues the great improbability and 

 irreconcileableness of the doctrine of the spread of glanders through 

 contagion. He places glanders "either in the nasal, frontal, or 

 maxillary sinuses ; as a discharge from the lungs, trachea, or 

 fauces, through the nostrils, does not constitute a real case of 

 glanders." — Although " it frequently happens that only one of the 

 nostrils, or one of the frontal sinuses, is diseased;" Mr. S, has 

 never seen either of the maxillary sinuses diseased unless the 

 frontal sinuses were also affected." Mr. Smith, like Professor 

 Coleman, regards glanders as "inflammation, increased secretion, 

 and ulceration of the mucous membrane lining the nostrils and the 

 other cavities of the head." He has seen but "eight cases in 

 which death was occasioned by suflbcation." — " In several cases 

 he has seen the mucous membrane ulcerated, and the bones affected, 

 without any enlargement between the maxillary bones." He feels 

 it "scarcely possible," from the " various shapes" glanders assumes, 

 to give such an account as will " enable a person who has not been 

 in the habit of investigating the symptoms, to determine with 

 certainty whether a horse be really glandered or not :" he has 

 " seen many horses pronounced glandered where no indication of the 

 disease could be found to exist in the head after death." — Follow- 



* Observations on the Diseases of the Horse, by Thos. Peall, Veterinary 

 Professor to the Dublin Society, &c. Cork, 1814. 



f The Horse Owner's Guide : containing Valuable Information on the 

 Management and Cure of Diseases incident to Horses ; more particularly that 

 very fatal Disease called Glandees. By Thos. Smith, late V.S. 2d Dragoon 

 Guards. 



