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him, in a subsequent publication*, calUng to his aid, when "glanders 

 is confirmecV — " emollient decoctions thrown up into the nostrils, 

 carefully pushed into the frontal sinuses, and repeated thrice a-day 

 for a week;" and, likewise, ''fumigations," which would come 

 into practice, he adds, " if their good effects were better known." 

 With his trepan and all its auxiliaries, Lafosse in the end finds 

 himself forced to confess " there is no answering for the cure," 

 that depending *' on the stubbornness of the disease ;" for, as he 

 appears now to have discovered, besides " confirmed glanders," 

 there are " six other kinds of discharges by the nostrils, of which 

 four are incurable." 



Bracken and Bartlett were both advocates for the trepan, 

 praising Lafosse for his discoveries and efficient method of cure; but 



Gibson t had no faith in the remedies. " Glanders," he said, 

 was " so generally fatal," he had no occasion to " spend much 

 time in laying down any method of cure." He scouts the notion 

 of getting rid of the disease through ** destroying the kernel under 

 the jaw with the actual or potential cautery," and so *' cutting off 

 the supply of matter that feeds the distemper ;" adding, that 

 glanders is " rooted in the blood," and therefore cannot be removed 

 by any other than '' inioard means;" which " means" he gives an 

 account of in the narratives of the cure of two cases of glandered 

 horses belonging to the " First troop of Guards." These cases, 

 however — one of which baffled all attempts for a period of six or 

 seven months — as our author remarks on them, only " shewed the 

 difficulty and trouble of curing glanders, even where the symptoms 

 are favourable; for among the many glandered horses I have seen," 

 he adds, " perhaps not one in fifty was to be meddled with ; 

 therefore / should never advise any body that has a horse TRULY 

 GLANDERED SO much as to ATTEMPT a cure." 



Few of us now living can give wholesomer counsel than this. 

 Let any person who professes to " cure" glanders but have his 

 cases proved by three such simple tests as follow, and the results, 



* Observations and Discoveries made upon Horses, &c. By the Sieur 

 Lafosse, Farrier to the King of France. London, 1755. 

 t Op. cit., at p. 257. 



