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what usually passes for the mourning of the chine , from a mistaken 
notion of corruption and putrefaction of the brain and spinal mar- 
row.” — “ But the most common and usual kind (of glanders) does 
not proceed from any of these causes, but from a bad disposition 
in the blood ; which, perhaps, continuing for a considerable time 
unperceived, at last shews itself by a swelling of the glands under 
the jaw-bones, and a running at the nose, without any other visible 
sign of sickness or disease; and this is “ what properly constitutes 
the glanders in the horse, and is either of the scrophulous kind, the 
same with the evil, or else cancerous; both which I have met with in 
practice, and may be either hereditary, or the effect of hard labour 
and bad keeping*” 
Reeves, a farrier at Ringwood, Hants, who about this time, 
1763, published a veterinary workt under the eye of a physician, 
looked upon glanders, as Lafosse did, as “ properly an inflamma- 
tion of the pituitary membrane running into the same errors 
about the “ kinds” of glanders Lafosse did, and adopting his mode 
of cure by injection. 
Bracken, 1769, assures us, he “ cannot describe the glanders 
better than Mr. Gibson has done ; to wit, ‘ that it is a flux or run- 
ning of corrupt matter from the nose of a horse, which matter is of 
different colours ; as white, yellow, green, or black, according to 
the degree* of malignancy, or according as the distemper has been 
of long or short continuance.’ — “ I know but of one inseparable 
sign of glanders, and that is inflammation or swelling of the glands 
about the throat or behind the ears. And as to what Solleysell, 
Blundeville, and others, write about the mourning of the chine or 
consumption of the brain and spinal marrow, &c., it is a pack of 
nonsense .” — “ I take Mr. Snape’s account of the glanders not to be 
very defective ; only I cannot agree with him in one thing, that is, 
in this distemper being contagious or infectious ; for he might as 
well say that we catch colds, consumptions, fyc., by infection^.” 
Bartlet, 1773, a surgeon, who wrote a veterinary work about 
the same period, became another of Lafosse’s proselytes. “ A new 
light,” he tells us, “ having been thrown on this whole affair by the 
study of M. Lafosse, the King of France’s farrier, who has been at 
the pains to trace out and discover, by dissections, the source and 
cause of this disorder ; we hope the method he has proposed, with 
* A New Treatise on the Diseases of Horses. By Wm. Gibson, Surgeon, 
1754, 2d edit. 
f The Art of Farriery, both in Theory and Practice, &c. &c. By Mr. 
John Reeves, Farrier at Ringwood, Hants. The whole revised, corrected, 
and enlarged, by a Physician. Second edition, 1763. 
\ Farriery Improved. By Henry Bracken, M.D., 1769. 
