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There are eases on record in which horses appear to 

 have been cured by every variety of treatment ; and 

 there are some instances of animals recovering when 

 all medical treatment was neglected. It is very pro- 

 bable that in every reported cure of glanders, nature 

 did a great deal more than medicine, or that the true 

 nature of the affection was mistaken. 



The method, however, which has oftenest suc- 

 ceeded, is that of strengthening the constitution 

 against the continued influence of the disease, by the 

 administration of stimulating food and tonics. The 

 following ball has often been serviceable ; and it has 

 sometimes apparently cured the horse, but far oftener 

 has stayed the disease only for a time. 



RECIPE (No. 13). 



Ball for Glanders. 



Take— Sulphate of copper (blue vitriol) powdered, from half a 

 drachm to a drachm : or sulphate of iron a drachm to 

 two drachms ; 



Cantharides finely powdered, five grains ; 



Ginger and gentian, of each a drachm ; 



Palm oil, sufficient to make a ball. 



One of these balls should be given morning and 

 night for a fortnight ; and then daily as long as may 

 be necessary. Or the constitutional treatment, but 

 more energetic than that recommended in the next 

 chapter for farcy, may be adopted. Some of the 

 relapses after the seemingly successful treatment of 

 glanders are readily explained, by the disorder not 

 being regular in its symptoms, but always of a most 

 deceptive nature. 



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