344 ON RHEUMATISM, 



for three turns. Cover with thick blankets. 

 Moderate walking exercife. 



Balls ofguiacum, powdered, half ?n ounce-; 

 cinnabar of antimony one ounce, mixed with 

 cordial ball, half a pound, and worked up with 

 fyrup of the fine opening roots^ are alfo re- 

 commended. Bliftering the part will fome- 

 times fucceed. .^ther, both externally and in- 

 ternally. Do not the inhabitants of Bath and 

 Buxton extend the ufe of their warrn baths to 

 their rheu'matic horfes ? 



GLANDERS. 



This difeafe in horfes, and the venereal dif- 

 eafe in the human race, bear much about the 

 fame date in medical annals ; that they ori- 

 ginated at fo late a period as that ufually af- 

 figned, appears to me totally irrational to fup- 

 pofe, and in dire6l opppfition to the general 

 ceconomy of nature. It is to fuppofe the an- 

 cients and their horfes exempt from unclean- 

 nefs and oblfruftion, and their confequences, to 

 affert that they had neither fyphilis nor glan- 

 ders among them. Nature has ever been in- 

 triniicaliy the fame, but obfcured or negle6i^ed, 

 varioufly defcribed, or mifunderftood, at differ- 

 ent periods. 



The glanders, fo fatal to horfes, was called by 

 the Italians^ ciamorro, and is defcribed very cor- 



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