114 0/ /£(? G L A N D E R S: 



performed by cutting part of it away j 

 but the farriers are apt to cut away too 

 much: the wound may be drefled with 

 honey of rofes \ and if a fungus or fpon- 

 gy flefh arifcs, it fhould be fprinkled 

 with burnt a'um, or touched with blue 

 vitriol. 



CHAP. XII. 

 Of //^6 G L A N D E R S. 



len^hu' T^ H E caufe and feat of the glanders 

 therto but ^^^ till lately been lb imperfedly 



little un- handled, and fo little underftood by the 

 derftood. writers of this diftemper, that it is no 

 wonder it fhould be ranked among the 

 incurables: but a new light having been 

 thrown on this whole affair by the ftudy 

 of M. La FofTe, the King of France's 

 farrier, who has been at the pains to 

 trace out, and dilcover, by difledlions,. 

 the fource and caufe of this diforder ♦, we 

 hope the method he has propofed, with 

 fome further experiments and improve- 

 ments, will foon bring to a certainty of 

 cuie (in mofl cafes at leaft) a diftemper 



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