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THE HISTORY OF GLANDERS. 
morbus farciminosus, the former of which some of his veterinary 
interpreters have said was glanders, the latter farcy. His descrip- 
tions, however, to say the least about them, are very vague and 
indefinite, at one time seeming to mean something more, at another 
something less than glanders and farcy. 
“The humid disease ( morbus humidus) is when from a horse’s 
nostrils, instead of snot, there flows a stinking and thick humour, 
of a pale colour. A horse thus affected has a great heaviness in his 
head, and hangs it down. The tears fall from his eyes, and there 
is a whizzing noise in his breast. He becomes thin and meagre, 
with his hair standing on end, and of sad aspect. This disease the 
ancients called the ATTICAN FLUX, or running at the nose. But 
whensoever a bloody humour or like to saffron begins to flow from 
the nostrils, then he is incurable, and near death’s door* * * § .” 
LEONARD MasCAL, 1587, our earliest writer, like the ancients, 
had no correct notions of glanders as a disease by itself. He tells 
us, “glanders are kernels under the jawes, and when they be ripe, 
they will run at the nose and there break outt.” 
Blundeville, 1609, writing in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 
the next authority we have, I believe, extant on the subject 
before us, appears to have made some progress in the knowledge 
of the fluxes or humid diseases of the ancients, for he instituted 
distinctions between glaunders and strang uillion, though he treated 
them both alike. He imbibed Theomnestris’ notion, that difference 
of colour in the nasal discharges constituted a difference in the 
disease itself He thought “ glaunders” originated in cold, and 
that “ last of all” came “ mourning of the chinef .” 
Gervaise Markham, 1630, was equally in the dark. He 
imagined the difference between strangles and glanders to consist 
in one breaking outwardlie, the other inwardlie 
De Grey, or De la Grey, 1740, adopted Solleysell’s notion 
of glanders proceeding from neglected cold, distinguishing the dis- 
ease “ by the inflamed kernels or knots which may be felt under 
the chaul of the horse.” He, however, continued in the old errror, 
of fancying that “ the thinne rheume ascendeth up to the head 
* Yegetius Renatus, of the Distempers of Horses, translated into English by 
the author of Columella. London, 1748. 
f The Government of Cattel, divided into three Bookes. Gathered by 
Leonard Mascal. London, 1620. 
j The Four chiefest Offices belonging to Horsemanship : that is to say, 
The Office of the Breeder, of the Rider, of the Keeper, and of the Ferrer. By 
Master Blundeville, of Newton Flotman, in Norfolke, 1608. 
§ Cavelarice ; or that Part of the Arte wherein is contained the Know- 
ledge or Office of the Horse-Farrier, with the Signes and Demonstrations of 
all Manner of Infirmities, and the most Approved Cure for the same. The 
Seaventh Booke, 1607-1676 (numerous editions). 
