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GLANDERS. 
enlarged submaxillary glands was proceeding along the hollow 
between the jaw-bones a cord of tumefied absorbents of the size 
of my wrist. On the eighth day the ulceration had become deep 
and extensive. On the eleventh, another cord of absorbents pro- 
ceeded from the swollen submaxillary glands, over the side of the 
face, to the affected nostril; and next day suppuration had taken 
place in a couple of buds upon the cords of absorbents. On the 
fourth day after inoculation, barytes, in its pure and caustic form, 
was administered, a medicine in which, at that time, my father and 
myself placed great faith as a remedy for glanders; and the same 
medicine was prescribed throughout the case. From the twelfth 
to the twenty -ninth day no material change was noted ; but, on the 
thirtieth day, such were the alterations for the better, that hopes, 
which had almost been abandoned, suddenly and unexpectedly 
were revived, and there seemed every prospect of recovery. The 
ulcerations upon the septum were manifestly healing, all swelling 
had left the nostril, and the enlarged glands were diminishing. 
On the thirty-seventh day there remained but the cicatrices of the 
ulcers to be seen, with some slight mucous discharge. The ap- 
pearances of farcy were vanishing also ; the farcy-buds, or rather 
ulcers, healing and cicatrizing ; but the enlarged gland under the 
throat felt soft and disposed to suppurate and ripen. By the 
fiftieth day, however, all signs of disease had disappeared, save 
some trifling remains of induration underneath the jaw. 
If this was not a case of glanders and farcy, it was, at all events, 
a case that nobody, save through the test of inoculation, could, for 
the most part of its progress, have distinguished from glanders and 
farcy ; and that it was not I can imagine many veterinarians will 
contend, and for two reasons ; — one being that the enlarged sub- 
maxillary gland shewed a tendency to suppurate, though, after all, 
it did not break ; the other, that the case ended in recovery. It 
must be remembered, however, that other instances of alleged 
“ cure” stand on well-authenticated record; and that, therefore, this 
might have been a case, like many or most of them , of spontaneous 
recovery, and consequently there was no absolute need of ascribing 
the horse’s getting well to the barytes. 
May 24th, 1820, I inoculated an ass about ten or twelve months old with 
matter taken from a horse of Mr. Stow’s, a farmer, at Farnborough, suspected 
to have (chronic) glanders. No effect followed. On the 28th I repeated the 
inoculation with matter taken from the frontal sinus of Lieut. Rich’s horse, 
also suspected of having (chronic) glanders. June 6th, still no appear- 
ance of disease. I next procured some matter from an acutely glandered 
subject, standing for slaughter at Cow Cross, and with it repeated the inocula- 
tion for the third time, as before, scarifying the ala nasi , and rubbing the 
vims upon it. On the fourth day after this last inoculation the nostril had 
become swollen and tender, and had a knotty feel, evidently from lymphatic 
