3G0 GLANDERS. 



unnumbered experiments, and occasional success still gives 

 a spur to the energies of new experimentalists. 



Glanders, however, is something more than a mere dis- 

 ease ; it is the termination of all other diseases. Supposing 

 the discharge from the nostrils could be stopped, the glan- 

 ders would not be cured. The discharge is but a symptom, 

 glanders being a general break-up of the constitution. The 

 pulmonary disease would remain untouched. The tubercles 

 and abscesses in the lungs would continue, and when this 

 is considered, we cannot wonder that glanders in horses, 

 like consumption in the human being, has defeated the best 

 efforts of science. 



We will, however, cursorily run over the most reputed 

 remedies which have been or continue to be tried, dwelling 

 longest on those which offer most hope. Injections and 

 nasal applications, on a view of its being a purely local 

 affection, have been too long and too fully tried to mis- 

 lead ; and had not a spontaneous cure every now and then 

 occurred, and had not nasal gleets been mistaken for 

 glanders, no one would have depended on the cure of 

 the disorder. Our neighbours, the French, have been 

 equally, perhaps even more, unfortunate than ourselves 

 in their curative attempts. Internally, mercurials in all 

 their forms have failed ; nor have they succeeded better 

 externally, though M. Bollestra, of Turin, professes to have 

 witnessed benefit from ungt. hydrarg. ^i rubbed into the 

 inside of the thigh daily until five or six pounds have been 

 used. Huzard and Biron were employed by the French 

 authorities to try both the muriate and carbonate of barytes, 

 and the exhibition of both drugs produced, in most in- 

 stances, a remission of symptoms ; but when pushed to 

 what was deemed a necessary extent, the animals usually 

 died from the effects of the medicine. Similar results have 

 followed in the practice of many other veterinarians. M. 

 Moiroud, veterinary professor at Alfort, has given 5ij of 

 chloride of soda in a liquid form, w^hich he has gradually 

 increased to a very large quantity, and with very flattering 

 appearances of amendment ; but the future cases did not 

 correspond. Camphor in daily doses of an ounce seemed 

 to benefit a horse much. Mr. Coleman has given ' the 

 various preparations of arsenic, antimony, copper, zinc, 



