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THE HISTORY OF GLANDERS. 
some farther experiments and improvements, will soon bring to a 
certainty the cure*,” &c. &c. 
Bourgelat, 1765, the great founder of the French Veterinary 
School, saw reason to secede from the notions, concerning the 
locality of glanders, of Lafosse, which, in his day, had firm hold of 
public opinion. He believed glanders to have its source in the 
corruption of the blood and humours of the body, and thought 
there was great analogy between the ulceration of glanders and 
venereal chancres. 
Paulet, however, as we learn from Hurtrel D’Arbovalt, was 
the French writer who especially drew attention to the similarity 
there existed between glanders and syphilis. “ The two viruses,” 
he says, “ exert their action in a similar manner : in both diseases, 
the lymph, contaminated through the presence of the virus, in its 
turn infects the gland in the neighbourhood to which it has been 
taken. In one case it happens to the glands in the groin, in another 
to those in the throat ; both performing the same office. The two 
viruses, acrid and irritating in their nature, having reached, in one 
instance the urethral canal of man, in the other the cavities of the 
head of the horse, lined by the pituitary membrane, and being 
there dissolved and decomposed, occasion by their presence irrita- 
tion, inflammation, burning, speedily followed by purulent flux, 
together with augmentation of the natural mucous secretion.” 
Gilbert, another French veterinary writer, regarded the know- 
ledge of the means of preventing glanders as hardly less in import- 
ance to the discovery of the cure for the disease. His notions, like 
Solleysell’s, were that both strangles and bastard-strangles frequently 
ended in glanders; in fact, that the two diseases were alike, glanders 
being but an imperfect evacuation of the strangles. But farcy being 
the disease which, of all others, most frequently terminates in 
glanders, it has received from farriers the appellation of its cousin 
German. Ordinarily, in horses, the disease is of a chronic nature : 
but on occasions it assumes the acute form. In mules and asses 
it is constantly acute f . 
Vitet, 1783, describes glanders to consist in a discharge from 
the nose of a virulent and contagious humour, in the first stages 
unaccompanied by fever or cough, or Joss of appetite or spirits. 
The horse, mule, and ass, are the only animals obnoxious to it. 
The disease commonly commences in one nostril. Its course is 
very uncertain. The horse may survive one, or two, or even three 
years. Some regard the pituitary membrane , others the lungs, as 
* The Gentleman’s Farriery, by T. Bartlet, Surgeon, 8th edit. 1773. 
t Dictionnaire de Medicine, de Chirurgie, et de Hygeine Veterinaires, 1838. 
j Observations sur les Causes de la Morve, &e. &c. 
