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served, that when glanderous matter is applied 

 to tlie skin of a horse ah'eady labouring under 

 the disease, although it be taken from another 

 horse, a chancre is not produced. Medicines 

 which have a considerable quantity of oxygen 

 in their composition, and which have so w^eak 

 an attraction for that element, as to part with 

 it readily, are the remedies for the venereal 

 disease ; and of these the preparations of 

 quicksilver are the most remarkable, though 

 nitrous acid, and oxymuriate of potash, are 

 said also to be antidotes to the venereal poi- 

 son. I have seen the discharire, and other 

 symptoms of glanders, considerably dimi- 

 nished by the use of acids, and have known it 

 removed for a time by means of mercurial 

 preparations. The farcy has been frequently 

 cured by means of mercury ; but 1 believe it 

 has never been known to cure the "landers 

 radically ; and I iiave been informed that it 

 has been very fairly tried. 



From the knowledge we possess of the glan- 

 ders, we may surely be encouraged to pursue 

 the inquiry, wdienever it can be done with 

 safety ; and though our experiments may not 

 lead us to any infallible remedy for the dis- 

 ease, thev mav teach us a more certain mode 



