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taining no oil or pus cells, but principally albumen. There is 

 one phenomenon never absent in this disease, and that is the en- 

 larged gland under the jaw ; hence the common name of the dis- 

 ease — glanders. There are, said the lecturer, many wrong ideas 

 entertained, not only in regard to the contagious nature of the 

 disease, but also in regard to its incurability and even fatality. 

 Glanders is no more contagious than the heavy, stinking discharge 

 from the nose of some horses with catarrh, as the pus of an ab- 

 scess on the nose of a horse with a cold, when introduced into the 

 blood of healthy animals, will produce a ferment — which explains 

 the reason why a cold in horses terminates in glanders ; it is the 

 absorption of the pus. This will be readily understood, when it 

 is said the horse is running or bordering on glanders. Horses af- 

 fected with chronic glanders will live and work for years, which 

 fact, being well known, has caused dissatisfaction with local laws, 

 prohibiting the use of glandered horses. 



Fresh specimens of sections of the lungs, nose, and other por- 

 tions taken from a glandered animal, were placed at the disposal 

 of the lecturer for the purpose of illustrating to the audience, 

 showing the morbid changes effected by the disease. At the close 

 of the lecture the doctor showed the manner of generating nascent 

 hydrogen for the purpose of detecting the presence of the alkaline 

 sulphite in the secretions of horses, under its effects, for the pur- 

 pose of the cure of glanders. Before touching upon the plan of 

 treatment, the reader is referred to the article Farcy. 



Treatment. The proposition of restoration in a disease of this 

 kind, is the 'destruction of the ferment, the removal of its products 

 or effects, and the improvement of the bad habit of body by en- 

 riching the blood. 



To remove or neutralize the ferment or poison, give one-half to 

 one ounce doses of the sulphite of soda at night, in cut feed, for 

 several weeks, and five grains of the powdered Spanish fly along 

 with it, which will act not only as a powerful tonic, but as an 

 agent whereby the product of the disease wil be removed from 

 the body of the animal by the kidneys. This treatment will not 

 interfere with the other medicine, which is powdered gentian root, 

 three drachms j powdered sulphate of copper, two drachms. Mix 



