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that the three latter of these (the copaiba and the two peppers) 

 were prescribed in cases of glanders. And, to a certain extent, 

 they were found to answer our expectations. I subjoin some 

 cases of recovery, some of amendment, from glanders — I will 

 not say of ''cure" — under the administration of these four last- 

 mentioned agents : — ■ 



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Recovery under the Use of Barytes. 



Case I. — July 1816. Black gelding, seven years old, in good condition. 

 Farcy in near hind leg ; a little flux of a muco-puriform nature from the 

 near nostril, and a small ulcer upon the Schneiderian membrane; sub- 

 maxillary gland swollen. Chloride of barium (muriate of barytes) 3ss, made 

 into a common-sized ball by the admixture of meal and molasses, increased 

 to jiss, daily. At the end of twenty-one days the patient was discharged 

 " cured." 



Case II. — June 1817. A brown mare, seven years old, in fair condition. 

 Flux from both nostrils ; one ulcer apparent within the off nostril, and two 

 within the near. Chloride of barium ji, increased to jiss, in ball as before, 

 daily. Took the medicine for sixty-eight days. Discharged " cured," 



Re-admitted in September 1817, with muco-puriform running from both 

 nostrils, and tumefied glands, but no ulceration. Chloride of barium ji, 

 increased by degrees to jiij, daily, for twenty-five days. Discharged again ; 

 but admitted for the third time in the following month (October) for farcy 

 in the off hind leg. Took the medicine again for seven days. Discharged 

 " cured," and went away out of any farther cognizance. 



Case III. — August 1818. Chestnut gelding, seven years old, in low con- 

 dition, having a foul discharge from the near nostril alone, with tumefied 

 gland. To this horse was given the oxj^de of barium (ollm, the pure or 

 caustic barytes), in doses of 9i and 9iss. Latterly, he took the liquor of 

 chloride of barium (the solution of the muriate of barytes). Altogether, he 

 took the medicine for seventy-one days. Discharged " cured." 



Case IV. — September 1818. A browi^ horse, in health, was inoculated 

 with matter procured from the horse-slaughterers' at Cow Cross, for the 

 purpose of producing glanders. On the fifth day afterwards two large ulcers 

 made their appearance within the near nostril (in which he was inoculated), 

 and there was muco-puriform discharge from it, and adhering to it. The 

 gland of the same side was swollen, and there was a nodous cord of tumefied 

 lymphatics, as large as a person's wrist, running from the aifected ala nasi 

 along the side of the jaw into the gland. This horse took the oxyde of ba- 

 rium in doses of 9i and 9iss during thirty-two days, at the expiration of 

 which period he was sent away " cured*." 



* This horse's case will be found related, at length, at page 221. 



