ON GLANDERS. ^^1 



centre of the gland, and the animal fliews fen- 

 fibiUty of pain, the difeafe is not the glanders, " 

 becaufe in that cafe the glands are hard and 

 quite infenfible." St. Bel ought to have made the 

 exception, that a portion of fenfibility might re- 

 main in the glands with the incipient glanders. 



I fliall now give my own fentiments refpeft- 

 ing this difeafe, which, during the courfe of 

 about feventeen years, I have feen in all the 

 various (hapes and fymptoms defcribed by 

 authors, without being altogether an incurious 

 obferver. Within ihe period I have had three 

 or four glandered horfes in my pofleflion, tw^o 

 of which I purchafed, chiefly in order to make 

 experiment. The hrfh was a cart-horfe, and 

 upon what grounds I have now forgotten, 

 I gave him oak-bark powdered in his corn, for 

 near two months, and a confiderable quantity 

 of crude mercury ; fome attention was paid to 

 cleanfmg his noftrils, and he w^as kept to con- 

 ftant work. The difcharge abated by degrees, 

 and at the end of about fix months was fcarcely 

 vifible ; but although improved, he w^as flill very 

 faint, and troubled with a confumptive cough. 

 1 fold him, and, about two years afterwards, faw 

 him again offered for fale, much in the fame 

 condition. I bought a mare of Doftor Snape, 

 which he fuppofed he had cured of the glan- 

 derSj cauglu from being improperly treated in 

 the ftransjles. She had not the fmalled dif- 



charge. 



