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THE HISTORY OF GLANDERS. 
chronic glanders has the property of propagating, through contact, 
either acute or chronic glanders, or even both*.” 
Feron, 1803, in discarding the notions of Lafosse, gives a very 
imperfect outline of such as were entertained, in his day, by 
Coleman. He tells us, “ the disorder may be divided into two 
states, the one chronic, and the other acute. The first is easily dis- 
tinguished from the other, as the running at the nose is but trifling, 
and of a very transparent colour, and no ulcers at the nose are yet 
observable ; whilst in the second case, or in the acute stage, the 
running and the ulcers in the nose have a very offensive smell,” &c. 
The earliest stage of the disease “ I call cAromct.” 
Shipp, 1808, among his “ Cases in Farriery” relates but one of 
glanders ; and that occurred in a horse “ belonging to a glazier of 
Doncaster;” from which solitary instance we are led to infer, either 
that glanders was unknown in his own regiments, or that he had 
kept no records of any military occurrences of the kind. The case 
itself is only worthy of mention as shewing the author’s belief that 
the horse “ might live many years with the disease, and in that 
time contaminate a great number of (other) good horses,” &cj. 
PEALL, the Irish veterinary Professor, 1814, imbibing the more 
correct pathological views of glanders and farcy which had been 
formed by Coleman, surprises us when we find him saying, that, 
“ in a practical point of view, it is not very material to inquire 
whether the farcy and glanders (which he regarded as the same 
disease) originate in the arterial or the lymphatic system § /” 
SMITH, Veterinary Surgeon to the 2d Dragoon Guards, pub- 
lished in 1818 the results of his observations, in his regiment, on 
glanders], which, as we have already seen, are chiefly interesting 
to us on account of the pertinacity with which he, on the strength 
of the facts and cases he adduces, argues the great improbability and 
irreconcileableness of the doctrine of the spread of glanders through 
contagion. He places glanders “either in the nasal, frontal, or 
maxillary sinuses ; as a discharge from the lungs, trachea, or 
fauces, through the nostrils, does not constitute a real case of 
glanders.” — Although “ it frequently happens that only one of the 
nostrils, or one of the frontal sinuses, is diseased ; ” Mr. S. has 
* Percivall’s Lectures on the Veterinary Art, vol. iii. 
t A New System of Farriery, by John Feron, veterinary surgeon 13th 
Light Dragoons. 1803. 
J Cases in Farriery, by John Shipp, veterinary surgeon 23d Light Dragoons. 
1808. 
§ Observations on the Diseases of the Horse, by Thos. Peall, Veterinary 
Professor to the Dublin Society, &c. Cork, 1814. 
|| The Horse Owner’s Guide: containing Valuable Information on the 
Management and Cure of Diseases incident to Horses ; more particularly that 
very fatal Disease called Glamours. By i hos. Smith, late V.S. 2d Dragoon 
Guards, 
