ON GLANDERS. 353 



diflance from the found ones. The cart-horfe 

 ftood in the fame ftable with five or fix others, 

 and yet nothing like infeftion, or any kind of 

 ill confequence followed, and I have known 

 many fimilar inflances. 



Much incertitude and variety has arifen in 

 the definition of the true glanders. The doc- 

 trine of thofe fl<.ilful nofologifls, the farriers, is 

 as follows ; fliould a horfe die with a difcharge 

 from his nofl:rils, and they have no other dif- 

 eafe to lay to his charge, they fay, he died 

 glandered ; but fhould he have the mofl; fetid 

 running, with all the other acknowledged 

 fymptoms of the difeafe, and yet recover, they 

 pronounce he was not glandered. It is no 

 doubt a fafe mode of delivering an opinion. 

 Some of the old writers, give you a receipt 

 " to bring away the glanders," as if the horfe 

 had fwallowed a peck of nuts, and you wifhed 

 him to void them. The oitentatious La Foffe, 

 as fond of fplitting hairs, and of fublimating 

 difeafes into a ufelefs variety, as our country- 

 man Taylor of empiric notoriety, who divided 

 the difeafes of the eye into two hundred and 

 forty-five, defcribes very accurately from the 

 varying colour of the difcharge, half a dozen 

 different fpecies of glanders ; he might as well 

 have crofs-examined the dejeftions, in order to 

 eftablifn from the various hue, confidence, and 

 fcent, as many different kinds o^ diarrhcea. I 



VOL. II. A A fubmit 



