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The foregoing cases, which have been selected from a large col- 

 lection on account either of their favourable progress or issue — the 

 very same medical treatment having in as probably great a 

 number proved of no avail — have not been introduced here with 

 any view of shewing, or inducing any body to imagine, that the 

 author either has cured or can cure glanders : at the same time, 

 such as they are, they are ready to be brought forward in support 

 of his pretensions to the " discovery of a cure" for glanders being 

 about as valid as those of individuals who have received either 

 approbation or reward on account of such " discoveries," and not a 

 wit more valid or worthy of consideration : the short and naked 

 truth being, that the cure of glanders is hardly more advanced 

 than it was in Lafosse's or even SoUeysell's time. Horses have got 

 rid of the disease under a very great variety of treatment, and on 

 occasions when no treatment whatever has been employed ; and 

 the cases of recovery on record are sufficiently numerous to en- 

 courage us, under certain favourable circumstances, to make fresh 

 experiments. 



Whatever medicine we may choose to prescribe — and, as I said 

 before, those of a tonic nature that possess, either in themselves, 

 or are combined with others that have, some influence upon the 

 mucous surfaces, are found in general to hold out best promise — 

 there can be no doubt but that the cure may be assisted by injec- 

 tions, if not by fumigations. 



Injections up the Nostrils and into the Sinuses of 

 THE Head I have repeatedly put into practice, sometimes with 

 good effect, sometimes with no good result, rarely with any per- 

 manent benefit. The injections I have used have been principally 

 such as are either caustic, escharotic, or astringent, in their nature. 

 I have syringed up the nose both caustic and escharotic solutions 

 of bichloride of mercury, nitrate of silver, sulphate of copper, 

 zinc, &c. ; and such astringent lotions as solutions of alum, infu- 

 sion of oak bark, &c. &c. 



Creosote, in human medicine, has received a high character as 

 an injection. Dr. Elliotson says, that, by the sedulous injection of 

 it in solution up the nostrils, he succeeded in removing all the 

 symptoms of a case of chronic glanders in a few weeks. And 



