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GLANDERS OR NOT? 
ceeded the most sanguine prognosis. I should like to hear, 
Sir, whether you consider it a case of glanders or not ? 
Remarks. — I, of course, take no merit to myself for having 
exhibited a remedy so strongly advocated by Professor 
Sewell, but wish to observe that, as the horse was very restive 
at the time of receiving its medicine, the grooms were obliged 
to draw the head up to a beam to exhibit the draught, (an 
objectionable practice you will say,) the consequence was 
that the medicine caused the horse to cough, and a portion 
of the solution was frequently regurgitated through the nostrils , 
thus applying it topically as well as constitutionally. How t 
far this local application became an adjuvant becomes an 
inquiry, and I mention it as a suggestion. 
Professor Sewell administers the sulphate in such large 
doses, that to prevent the erodent effects upon the stomach, 
he makes it imperative that the salt should be exhibited in 
solutio'n . May not the same thing have taken place in his 
successful cases and yet the topical application of the solu- 
tion have been unnoticed ? 
Perhaps, Sir, some of your many correspondents, whose 
opportunities allow, may like to carry the idea out, and 
report thereon, for my own part I shall not fail to do so 
should circumstances permit. 
In the present day, and with the preconceived theories of 
glanders, it may, perhaps, subject the writer to no small 
degree of ridicule, to recommend local applications, but 
without aspiring to be the inventor of any British hum — (beg 
pardon, I should have written remedy). I should like, in 
addition to the internal administration of the Sol. Sul. Cupri, 
to hear the results of a fair trial of the solutions of the Sul- 
phates of Copper and Zinc to the sinuses of the head and 
nose (in incipient cases) also. 
From witnessing the effects of the combined salts, in other 
cases, I should like to give them an extended trial in this ; I 
therefore make the suggestion in the hope that some of 
your numerous and persevering correspondents may make 
the trial which my limited opportunities scarcely allow. 
Hoping your criticism may not entirely annihilate, I beg 
to subscribe myself, 
Sir, yours faithfully, 
W. G. Reeve. 
1, Elizabeth St., Eaton Sa.; 9 th March , 1853. 
*** We cannot imagine Mr. Reeve’s case to have been 
one of genuine glanders. We have, in oar time, had such 
cases ourselves, and have been led away by the ignesfatui . — 
Ed. Vet. 
