THE HISTORY OF GLANDERS. 
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the seat of glanders. For my own part, I willingly class myself 
with those who think both the head and the chest the seat of the 
disease. Those who have considered glanders to be a local disease 
have essayed by injections to accomplish a cure ; while the advo- 
cates for its being a pulmonary disease have made use of detersions, 
such as the terebinthinates and balsams ; while those who have re- 
garded as its seats both the pituitary membrane and lungs have 
been as fond of employing internal as external remedies*. 
VOLPI, the Italian professor of veterinary medicine, suspects 
strong identity in nature between glanders and syphilis. Glanders 
is so frequently associated with farcy, that many assert they are the 
same disease. Farcy, however, is much more easily cured than 
glanders. Glanders is only curable while recent : after it has long 
existed, the organic lesions occasioned by it render all our remedies 
of no avail, these said lesions proving the disease to be of an in- 
flammatory nature. It is absurd to consider the submaxillary tu- 
mefied glands as the focus of the disease, and to imagine that ex- 
tirpation of them will tend to its removal. 
SNAPE condemns the operation of trepanning, as insufficient to 
cure the glanders ; sagaciously asking, “ can success be expected 
from the irrational procedure of attempting to remove the defects, 
previous to subduing the original cause, which is seated in the 
blood , where it is introduced by various means'!” This author 
seems to have had an impression that glanders and farcy were but 
the same disease; for he says, “the first stage of glanders is farcy 
in the head, and the last stage of a farcy in the head is a confirmed 
glanders ^ .” 
Taplin, 1791, after, in his own peculiar happy vein of irony, 
holding Lafosse, and “ his trumpeter, Bartlett,” up to ridicule for 
the notions of “ the seven different kinds of glanders,” and “ the 
cures almost incredible,” through trepanning, syringing, &c., that 
were said to be performed, gliding from the eminence of satire 
“ gently into the vale of reason,” informs us, as his own opinion 
on the subject, “ that any corrosive matter discharged from the 
nostrils, and suffered to continue for a length of time, so as to con- 
stitute ulcerations and corrode the bones, will degenerate into, and 
constitute, the disease generally understood by the appellation of 
glanders : every stagnant, acrimonious, or putrid matter is pos- 
sessed of this property, and more particularly when lodged (or by 
sinuses confined) upon any particular part” — “ whether proceeding 
from an ulceration of the lungs, or the inveterate glandular dis- 
* Medecine Veterinaire, par M. Vitet, vol. ii, 1783. 
f A Practical Treatise on Farriery; from the management of the late Mr. 
Snape, farrier to their Majesties and to the second troop of Horse Guards. 
