THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XVII, No. 202. OCTOBER 1844. New Series, No. 34. 
GLANDERS. 
By William PerCIVALL, M.R.C.S., Veterinary Surgeon 
First Life Guards. 
THE Propagation of Glanders by Inoculation is a fact 
so well established that it appears supererogatory to offer any ex- 
amples of it. It was one of the first questions regarding glanders 
and farcy which the late Professor of the Veterinary College sought 
to set at rest ; and it was, in numberless instances, proved in the 
affirmative, both by himself and those studying under him, in the 
most complete and satisfactory manner. 
In later times inoculation has been practised more by way of a 
test of the presence or genuineness of glanders in doubtful cases than 
with any view of proving its communicableness; and asses, on 
account of their comparatively little cost, have commonly been 
chosen as the subjects of inoculation: the circumstance also of their 
being, as I before observed, more predisposed than horses to take 
glanders and farcy, has rendered them additionally inviting. It is 
not often we hear of inoculation being practised in the horse. I 
performed it once myself on a healthy middle-aged horse : whether 
the result proved glanders or not my reader shall determine. 
On the 11th of September, 1818, I inoculated a brown horse, 
then about seven years of age, upon the septum nasi, with matter 
of glanders procured from the slaughterer’s at Cow Cross. On 
the third day there was a pimply or slightly tumid condition of the 
part of the membrane inoculated, accompanied by some trifling 
yellow albuminous issue from the nostril, and swelling of the sub- 
maxillary lymphatic gland of the same side ; and, on the fourth 
day, there was evident ulceration, with augmented discharge, and 
that of a purulent character. On the fifth day there were to be 
plainly seen two large unhealthy-looking ulcers upon the inferior part 
of the septum nasi, and there was a mixture of pus and mucus ejected 
from, as well as adhering about, the external nostril ; and from the 
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