368 CHANCRES, INCURABLE. [BOOK II. 



glanders, the most dangerous disorder of the three, 

 but not the most common. These two latter spe- 

 cies of glanders are infectious, because the disease 

 resides principally in the blood ; but the glanders 

 of the first species, although the only real glanders, 

 the glanders simply so called, is not in anywise 

 contagious, although it most frequently occurs. 



" The second and third species are incurable, 

 but the last only is mortal % But, as to glanders 

 of the first sort, it is neither incurable nor mortal. 

 In the first place, we repeat, this disease is not 

 mortal in any case, and a horse attacked by it is in 

 the same situation as a man who has lost the sense 

 of smelling ; it is the loss of a sense, and the loss 

 of a sense prevents neither the man nor the horse 

 from fulfilling all the animal functions ; for, as we 

 daily observe men affected with ulcerated noses 

 preserve an otherwise sound constitution, and even 

 look jolly, so we may observe a glandered horse 

 preserve his strength and health. 



" Secondly ; glanders of the first sort is in- 

 curable only when inveterately confirmed ; but 

 when taken in an early stage, its progress may be 

 stopped with very little trouble. 



" Thus we find that glanders of the first species, 

 the real glanders, glanders simply so called, ab- 

 solutely consists of nothing more than the loss of 



* Why, to be sure, in a country where they executed the law 

 upon suspicion only, where the writer himself complains, as much as 

 he dared, that his experiments were curtailed by the strict enforce- 

 ment of the law against glanders. 



