NATUia: OF GLANDKRS. 299 



The circumstance of a horse affected with glanders or farcy 

 recovering, after a short time, his usual health and spirits, or even 

 never ostensibly losing them under the disease, is no valid argu- 

 ment against the constitutional essence of the disease. There is 

 a class of diseases affecting man, eruptive in nature and several 

 among them contagious — the exanthemata — whose character it is 

 to commence with fever, which, on the appearance of the eruption, 

 either altogether leaves the patient, or much abates in violence ; 

 and to these diseases glanders and farcy, in this respect, may be 

 said to bear more or less analogy : this, however, is not the case with 

 syphilis, even after it is supposed to have become constitutional ; 

 a circumstance in which it differs from glanders, though by many 

 between the two diseases there has been thought to be, and it 

 must be confessed there certainly is, in some other respects, a good 

 deal of resemblance. 



Of the fourth proof of the constitutional nature of the disease, 

 viz. 



The Inefficacy of Topical Remedies, I shall speak when 

 considering if any and what treatment is likely to prove available 

 in glanders and farcy. 



Under what Circumstances, if under any. Glanders 

 MAY BE REGARDED AS A LOCAL DISEASE, it is not easy with any 

 certainty to determine. Inoculated glanders or farcy, making its 

 appearance at the usual period — about the third day — after inocu- 

 lation, may be or may not be so considered; and the same might be 

 said of such cases of proved contagion whose origin bore any ana- 

 logy thereto. Cases, however, in which, although contagion appears 

 to be the cause, weeks or months elapse before the disease shews 

 itself, should be viewed, I think, as the result of the contamination 

 of the system. And so, likewise, ought every case originating in 

 pollution of the blood from the inhalation of mephitic gases — in 

 other words, from the miasm of the stable — to which Coleman at- 

 tributed such universal and exclusive influence : proving that, ac- 

 cording to his notions, almost every case was constitutional. Mr. 

 Youatt, however, who is a great contagionist, defines glanders to 

 be an inflammation of the Schneiderian membrane, " strictly local 

 for awhile, and often for a long while, and during its insidious 



