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354 ON GLANDERS. 



fubmit to the profefTion, " whether every dif- 

 charge from the noftrils of horfe, afs, or 

 mule, foetid, and from its acrimony capable 

 of erofion, ought not to be called glanders ?" 

 It would fave much ufelefs difquifition. 



The Glanders, or Contagious Ca- 

 tarrh, is either chronic, as being the effe£l of 

 inveterate and accumulated catarrh, or acute, 

 as arifing immediately from epidemic conta- 

 gion, or infeftion from one animal to another ; 

 the feat of the difeafe is in the fublingual 

 glands, which are tumefied and obftruded, in 

 the pituitary membrane, or in the lungs. That 

 the difeafe is local according to the notion of 

 La Fojfe, is fo far true, that the difcharge 

 always proceeds either from the pituitary mem- 

 brane, or the lungs, but that the whole mafs 

 of fluids muft be tainted by the glanderous 

 virus in a confirmed cafe, I think needs no 

 proof ; we are not to wonder at the unwilling- 

 nefs of that author, to accede to fuch a pofi- 

 tion, he had his fyftem of locality to fupport; 

 the vanity of making every confideration give 

 place to a favourite hypothefis, is not confined 

 to the Sieur La Fojfe. 



Obftruftion and ftasrnation, whether in the 

 air, or animal fluids, I take to be the fource of 

 mephitis, or contagious virus; circulation, mo- 

 tion, and currency its cure. Stagnation is the 

 nidus (fo to fpeak) where are hatched thofe 



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