•278 SEAT AND NATUUE OF GLANDERS. 



strictly speaking, as glanders, " until the discharge or matter from 

 the nostrils is capable of producinr/ similar effects,'' &c. (p. 167). 

 Mr. Vines makes a division of glanders according as it is confined 

 to the head, or as the head and lungs are both diseased: — " In order 

 to enable those who may be disposed the better to comprehend the 

 subject, I shall divide the symptoms which constitute glanders into 

 two classes, beginning with those which are confined to the head." 

 Here follows " Sect. I," treating of " Glanders when confined to the 

 mucous membrane lining the nose and cavities of the head ;" and, 

 " Sect. 11," " Glanders, when the head and lungs are both diseased." 

 The treatment for glanders and farcy recommended by Mr. Vines I 

 shall defer the account of until we come to consider that branch of 

 our subject. 



Blaine has always " felt convinced of the specific nature of this 

 affection (glanders), which, for variety in its mode of production, 

 continuation, and termination, has no parallel ; and to Avhich only 

 we can attribute the unsettled state of the opinions concerning it, 

 but which do nothing to unsettle its claim to the character of a 

 direct and peculiar p)oison which can always beget its like, and its 

 like only. If the matter of farcy and the matter of glanders could 

 produce at one time grease or strangles, and at another mild catarrh, 

 I might doubt," says Mr. Blaine ; '' but when I find nothing but 

 the same type of disease follow from the infection, I can only con- 

 sider such an infection as one sui geneins^" 



Spooner, 1842, the able Editor of Whitet, has, in one of his 



* Op. cit., at page 218. 



t At page 200 I have quoted from the seventh edition of White's " Treatise 

 on Veterinary Medicine"; nor did T know, until Mr. Spooner's reconstructed 

 work came into my hands, that there had been a sixteenth edition. And at 

 page 236 I have named White as authority for glanderous matter having been 

 administered to horses in the form of bolus without effect. Now, however, 

 that I have Mr. Spooner's edition before me, I can — and must in justice to the 

 original author — correct myself. — " Glanders," in this edition, White tells us," 

 is a contagious disorder, which is communicated by inoculation, and by swalloir- 

 ing matter^ and not by effluvia proceeding from a glandered horse, or a stable 

 in which a glandered horse has been kept." And in another place, " I am 

 inclined to believe that the disorder is more readily caught hy eating the 

 glanderous matter mixed with the oats and hay than by drinking it with the 

 water," &c.— White, edited by Spooner, 1842. 



