338 THERAFEUTIC TREATMENT. 



In the horses whose cases are enumerated in the foregoing tabu- 

 lar statement glanders and farcy presented itself in all its forms, 

 phases, and stages, and the patients, in by far the majority of 

 instances, were brought into the infirmary immediately any sign 

 of disease presented itself : there was, consequently, every advan- 

 tage afforded for treatment, and treatment of every kind and mode 

 that could be devised was, at the suggestion either of Professor 

 Coleman or of my father, sometimes of myself, put fairly and fullv 

 to the test, for the most part under my own daily, and on many 

 occasions hourly, visits to the patients. The following medicines 

 were tested, all of them as internal remedies, some few exter- 

 nally as well : — Preparations of mercury, arsenic, copper, iron, 

 lead, zinc, silver, antimony, barytes : manganese, sulphur, am- 

 monia, fused potash, nitrous and prussic acids, chlorate of potash: 

 aconite, belladonna, cantharides, catechu, cayenne pepper, cin- 

 chona and oak bark, yew leaves, copaiba balsam, cocculus indicus, 

 cubeb pepper, digitalis, elaterium, euphorbium, gamboge, helle- 

 bore, hemlock, henbane, mezereon, opium, snake root, stavesacre, 

 sumach, stramonium, tobacco, valerian, wormwood. 



Among the mineral substances experimented on, harytes com- 

 manded our greatest attention. Indeed, at one time so sanguine 

 were our expectations concerning it that I drew up a paper on 

 its efficacy in glanders* : as with other asserted " remedies" and 

 " cures," however, subsequent experience shewed the apparent 

 success derived from its use to be incidental or circumstantial ; 

 and now it stands with me much, perhaps, in the same estimation 

 in which the sulphate and the diniodide of copper and cantharides 

 stand with their respective advocates. 



Among the vegetable productions, stavesacre, the balsam of 

 copaiba, cubeb pepper, and cayenne pepper, obtained the most 

 favourable reports. It was evident, however, that the apparent — 

 indeed, in some cases resembling nasal gleet, actual — benefit 

 accruing from the use of these medicines was ascribable to their 

 well-known action upon the mucous surfaces : in fact, it was from 

 their acknowledged efficacy in gonorrhoea in the human subject 



* Which paper was read, in the year 1824, to the Veterinary Medical 

 Society, at the Veterinary College. 



