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annals of veterinary medicine contain several cases of recovery 

 under treatment of various and different kinds, and that the patient 

 in question, so long as the disease increases not beyond its present 

 mild form, may, it is just possible, add another to that number. But 

 what is to be the methodus medendil Shall we attack it as a 

 general disease or simply deal with it 'as a local affection ? — or 

 shall we essay what can be done in these ways combined ] Let 

 us first consider 



GENERAL TREATMENT. In respect to regimen I would 

 have the horse comfortably lodged, well groomed, and well fed. 

 I think it not only impolitic but dangerous even to disturb, 

 in any material degree, that (good) health which he, to all 

 appearances, is in the present enjoyment of. Supposing any local 

 inflammatory action or fever that may exist not to be of a cha- 

 racter — which in the sub-acute and chronic forms of the disease 

 we do not expect to find it is — to require any antiphlogistic treat- 

 ment, I would not deplete or debilitate my patient : I would 

 neither bleed nor purge him. And what medicine I gave, should 

 be of a tonic or astringent character; astringent so far as regards 

 any action it might have on the mucous tissues : I say this be- 

 cause it will be found, when we come to examine the various 

 ** specific remedies" we have had recommended for the cure of 

 glanders, that they mainly or wholly owe their anti-glanderous 

 properties to their influence upon the secretions of these parts. 



As well in other countries as in our own have persons — vete- 

 rinarians and others — come forward with "cures for the glanders;" 

 and there, as well as here, have learned societies and colleges (not 

 to mention the credulous public) been ready and weak enough 

 to approve and reward such pretensions without waiting until the 

 " discoveries" had been submitted to the examinations and tests of 

 persons who were alone capable of appreciating them. In the last 

 century the Royal Academy of Science vouchsafed their approba- 

 tion to Lafosse for his discoveries of the seat, nature, and cure of 

 glanders. In the present century, the Royal Society of Agricul- 

 ture in France have publicly eulogized Professor Collaine, of the 

 Milan veterinary school, for his successful practice against glan- 

 ders, with sulphur as his specific; and our own Veterinary College 



