\)Z DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



vered by myself and. published in the Evening Bulletin of 

 December 21st, 1865, will answer for the history and na- 

 ture of the disease called glanders. The treatment will 

 be made more plain for non-professional readers. 



Dr. Robert McClure, Veterinary surgeon, delivered a 

 lecture on Tuesday evening at the Veterinary College. 

 His subject was " Glanders in Horses." He said: Glan- 

 ders is a disease dating from the time of Xenophon, or 

 four hundred years before Christ, and we are assured by 

 Hippocrates, (ruler of the horse) that confirmed glanders 

 was incurable, and that it was then known by the name 

 Profluvium Atticum. Veterinary surgeons recognize two 

 varieties of Equinia in the horse, viz : Equinia mitts. 

 Contracted from horses with greasy heels {Paronychia 

 Eqiii and Equinia Grlandulosa a dangerous disease, and 

 readily communicated to man. Glanders is unknown at 

 the tropics and at the poles, and is not seen where struma 

 is not a disease of the people. It is a domestic disease. 

 The assignable causes are many ; among which may be 

 enumerated starvation, filth and debilitating diseases, as 

 strangles, catarrh and lung-fever, or, indeed, any disease 

 capable of generating pus ; and this pus being absorbed 

 into the general circulation, thus forming a ferment, a 

 Zumin, or a leaven, as the Bible has it, within the blood, 

 and the effort of nature, to get rid of this offending mat- 

 ter, is seen in the ulcerations of the lining membranes of 

 the nose. The recent experiments of Professor Giovanni 

 Polli, of Milan, seems to corroborate this view, as he has 

 produced glanders and other Zymotic diseases in seventy 

 dogs, by injecting into their blood in some cases fetid bul- 

 lock's blood, pus, and glandered products, and neutrali- 

 zing the ferment so set up by the administration of an 

 alkaline sulphite — a new intero chemical doctrine — on the 



