THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XXX, 
No. 353. 
MAY, 1857. 
Fourth Series, 
No. 29. 
Communications and Cases. 
THE USE OF GLANDERINE AND FARCINE IN 
THE TREATMENT OF PULMONARY AND 
OTHER DISEASES. 
By James J. G. Wilkinson, M.D. 
The employment of remedies derived from the animal 
kingdom, and from the products of animal disease, has been 
legitimated by vaccination ; to which may now be added 
syphilization, as practised on a large scale in many capitals 
of Europe. It is my duty, in a very brief form, to bring to 
the notice of all who are interested in the science of healing, 
in public health, and in the eradication of incurable maladies, 
the employment which I have now made for some time of the 
morbid products of glanders and farcy, in the extinction of 
certain human diseases. It would be easy to write a book 
upon the subject ; but it is more profitable in a new field, 
requiring the co-operation of many minds and experiences, 
to confine it to a short memoir. 
Glanders, the malignant catarrh of the horse, and farcy, 
which is tertiary glanders, affecting the lymphatics and 
cellular tissue of the limbs and of the whole body, are dis- 
eases so deadly, that until of late years, the problem of the 
harmless administration of their virus was not likely to be 
solved. At present, however, by the simplest process, the 
means is at hand whereby any person can prepare these sub- 
stances for himself, so that they shall preserve all their medi- 
cinal vigour, though they lose entirely the power of morbid 
inoculation.* 
* As the inoculation of syphilis cures syphilis, why should not the inocu- 
lation of glanders from another horse, cure glanders F The experiment in 
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