GLANDERS AND FARCY. JL 



now reports that both he and his colleagues have been struck with 

 astonishment at the success of the Mallein treatment. Horses 

 suspected of glanders have been completely cured by repeated 

 injections of Mallein at intervals of eight days. In all eight horses 

 have been thus treated, and all these animals came from regiments 

 in which glanders had prevailed for years. Before injection the 

 horses showed all the clinical sj'mptoras of glanders, -and had on 

 that account been isolated. They reacted to the first two injec- 

 tions in the ordinary way, but at the third and each succeeding 

 injection (with large doses) they behaved like healthy horses, 

 and exhibited no reaction. Immediatel}^ after the third injection 

 the symptoms of glanders began to abate, and after 40-45 daj's 

 they had completel}^ disappeared. After other 35 daj's the 

 horses were again injected with Mallein, but not the slightest 

 reaction followed. At the date of the report the horses were 

 doing their work as well or even better than other sound horses. 

 The Mallein treatment has been found successful onl}' in the early 

 stages of glanders; in the advanced stages of the disease the in- 

 jection of Mallein ma}^ hasten death. In some of the latter cases 

 the horses died with the symptoms of peracute nasal glanders 

 three or four days after the first injection." From the latter 

 clauses of this article we come to the conclusion that the agent 

 prepared in the form Mallein is probably in a majority of cases 

 produces an aggravation of the symptoms, and consequently 

 horses "in the advanced stages of the disease'" have not stamina 

 and vitality of constitution enough to enable them to withstand 

 the potent action of the more powerful Mallein; but here steps in 

 the advantage of the homoeopathicall}' prepared agent; glander- 

 inum (Swan) is attenuated to the centum mille = 100,000th 

 potency, and may be relied upon to do its w'ork effectively without 

 any risk of aggravation of symptoms. 



According to experience w'e are disposed to think that glander- 

 inum is more likel}'^ to prove useful in old standing chronic cases 

 rather than in the more acute and recently developed ones in 

 which latter other remedies possibly answer best. 



Treatment — Kali bichromiciL-m , 3X. — Ten grains three or four 

 times a day, dry on the tongue, when lining membrane of nose is 

 blue or slate color; ulcers developed thereon with ragged edges; 

 discharge thick, glutinous, 3'ellow, hanging in strings; submaxil- 



