376 MERCURIAL APPLICATIONS, &C. [BOOK II. 



After examining the cases reported by various 

 writers, particularly Mr. St. Bel, we have come to 

 the conclusion, that there is no analogy between 

 glanders and the venereal disease, but the inocu- 

 lation of sound animals ; and that the exhibition 

 of mercury in any form, so much boasted by that 

 person's successors, is utterly fallacious. One case, 

 in which this mineral was employed with asserted 

 success, at the Pancras College, is proved unworthy 

 of credit, by the failure of the same medicine in 

 every succeeding attempt. Yet did the sub-pro- 

 fessor, Sewell, receive an accession to his salary, 

 in consequence of his hardy assertions that he had 

 herein discovered this mode of curing glanders ! 



We never had any doubt that those affections of 

 the pituitary membrane in mankind, which causes 

 a decided running of offensive matter in the nostrils, 

 accompanied by swelling of the glands under the 

 jaw, partook of the nature of glanders in horses ; 

 nor, that the disorder might be incurred by man, 

 either by contact, by absorption, or by inoculation — 

 if not also by inJtalation : but we had still to learn 

 that it would prove fatal, when this sheet was 

 preparing for jiress, though we firmly believe that 

 the final catastrophe might be deferred by extra 

 generous living, as in the case of horses. — See 

 page 104, line 23. By the Edinburgh Advertiser 

 of May, 1829, we learn, that " Corporal Wells, 

 of the Queen's Bays, (4th regiment of light horse) 

 died, last week, at Cahar, of the glanders, com- 

 municated to him through a scratch in his finger 



