242 USE OF GLANDERINE AND FARCINE. 
In bronchitis, in all its stages, I have had considerable ex- 
perience with the employment of glanderine ; and I could 
easily detail cases from my note-books, if I had not proposed 
to myself limits of space which do not admit of such details. 
Suffice it to say, that I regard glanderine as little short of a 
specific, in the worst forms of bronchitis; especially in 
elderly persons, where suffocation from excessive secretion is 
imminent; in such cases, the patients themselves express 
the relief experienced as (e magical.” Here glanderine ap- 
pears to supply a desideratum. For its action is rapid and 
satisfactory in those neglected cases which have smouldered 
perhaps for weeks in the bronchial flues before the practi- 
tioner is called in ; and when he arrives, the patient, who 
then perchance for the first time takes to his bed, is in truth 
near his end. Let glanderine be employed under these cir- 
cumstances, and the expectoration becomes freer ; the fever 
less intense ; strength recovers itself : in twenty-four hours 
the expectoration diminishes ; the diminution of the sputa 
proceeds rapidly, and the strength advances with it : the 
mouth moistens, and the tongue cleans ; and the patient is 
soon out of danger. 
From my present experience of glanderine, I look back 
upon many fatal cases, which would probably have been saved 
by this surprising remedy. 
There is another class of bronchial cases in which glander- 
ine is attended with success : I mean those in which there is 
no present danger ; but in which the disease has firmly esta- 
blished itself in the lungs, perhaps extensively, and requires 
many weeks to subdue ; with a great probability that a bron- 
chial asthma^will be left behind. In these cases, glanderine 
will perform, in eight or ten days, the work of weeks of any 
other medicament, or course of medicaments, with which I 
am acquainted. It is my practice, where necessary, to alter- 
nate it with any other remedy, as aconite, ipecacuanha, or 
bryonia, which seems to be necessary, every two, three, or 
four hours. 
In pneumonia I have not tried glanderine ; but I shall do 
so with great confidence, especially where the rusty sputa 
are strongly characteristic. I do not know what may be its 
effects in dry coughs ; but in the most obstinate cases of 
cough attended with expectoration, and which have been 
accustomed to commence at Christmas and last till June, its 
this now incurable disease could at least do no harm. Or let it be tried with 
farcy upon glanders, and vice versa. The first or second decimal dilution 
might be employed for the inoculation, with the certainty that that in- 
creased tension of the poison would produce a mitigated disease. 
