244 USE OF GLANDERINE AND FARCINE. 
inflammation of the veins and lymphatics, particularly where 
matter is formed, or forming, farcine would no doubt prove 
homoeopathic, i. e. } curative to the symptoms. 
In the more violent or rapid cases, I would recommend 
the glanderine, or farcine, to be as recent as possible. 
In malignant external ulcerations, I have used a lotion 
prepared by dissolving one two grain pellet of glanderine in 
half a tumblerful of water. Try the remedy thus in old bad 
legs, and in putrid bed-sores. It also deserves experiment 
in obstinate syphilitic sores attended with great fetor; it 
will probably abate the malignancy of the inflammation, even 
if it cannot, from specific causes, work a deeper effect. 
It is a fair deduction also, that glanderine is a first-class 
remedy in confluent smallpox, or it might be given in alter- 
nation with farcine. 
I have made no trials of it in skin-diseases ; but shall 
assuredly do so wherever malignancy and phagedasna are 
prominent characteristics. It is promising in pustular ring- 
worm. 
I have cured one case of anasarca of the lower limbs with 
farcine. This remedy, judging by the analogous effects in 
the horse, will probably apply with efficacy to uterine phle- 
bitis. It is worth thinking of also in psoas and lumbar 
abscess. 
Let the veterinarian try it in the lung-disease, and murrain, 
of cattle. 
A most interesting problem occurs : What will glanderine 
do for phthisis ? I can only answer that, in my experience, 
it has stormed the outworks of phthisis ; but whether it will 
carry the citadel remains to be proved. It diminishes the 
expectoration ; abates the constantly recurring aggravations 
of inflammation ; and checks the liability to catarrhal affec- 
tions, which excite the tuberculous diathesis from without ; 
but whether or no it will operate upon tubercle, I cannot say. 
In time, it is my intention to lay this matter in detail before 
the vmrld ; but at present a sufficient time has not elapsed 
to test the trueness of the remedy. Meanwhile I commit 
the experiment also to all humane persons, and institutions 
for the consumptive. The glanderine can be given in alter- 
nate doses w ith iron, or other remedies : being an animal 
substance, it will be singularly little interfered with by other 
drugs, provided three, four, or six hours intervene between 
the administration of the two substances. 
The use of glanders suggests also the use of all the other 
animal poisons. These indeed may be regarded as malignant 
or medicinal growths upon the fields of morbid animal na- 
