REFLECTIONS ON GLANDERS. 
47 
of which time the animal became glandered. From several corro- 
borative facts, which I shall hereafter adduce, lam fully impressed 
with the belief, that had the horse from whom the blood was ab- 
stracted been perfectly sound and in vigorous health, instead of be- 
ing glandered, the result of such an outrage upon the ass as just 
described would have been the break up of his constitution, and 
the virus of glanders engendered, with the power of propagation. 
Only imagine the suffusion of the delicate mucous membrane 
lining the minute sinuosities of the air-passages of the nasal fossae, 
their engorgement and sympathetic absorbent inflammation in the 
vicinity as a necessary sequence. 
Mr. Vines, who has contributed largely to our knowledge on 
glanders and farcy, has produced glanders by inoculating an ass 
only with the matter of a horse, taken from a virulent greasy heel. 
(Vide his excellent publication.) 
My own reminiscences are painfully acute, and I am too well 
qualified to bring to light incontrovertible evidence of the prefer- 
ence of the ass over the horse, not only to imbibe and foster the 
actual virus of glanders, but likewise the existence of an inherent 
power of converting one morbid secretion into another of a totally 
different character. 
The melancholy case of my own brother, who was victimized by 
glanders at the Royal Veterinary College of London, as long back 
as the year 1816, would unfold stirring points in pathological 
study enough to fill a volume ; but it will suffice in the present 
paper that I briefly allude to the insidious manner in which the 
destructive train was laid, and by which it was his destiny to be 
sacrificed. 
My second brother, William Turner, had recently entered the 
College as a student. It happened that I paid him a visit one morn- 
ing during the hour usually devoted by Professor Sewell for the in- 
spection of the hospital patients. I was then an Army Vet., and 
at the same time in practice with my father at Croydon. Following 
the cases in succession, Mr. Sewell took a lancet from his pocket, and 
opened an abscess in the throat of a vigorous four-year-old horse, 
with the strangles, just ripe for the incision. White, thick, laudable 
pus flowed copiously ; Mr. S. remarking, at the moment, this being 
so pure a case of simple strangles, it would be a desirable subject 
to inoculate from, with the view of producing strangles in a healthy 
animal. The deed followed the word instanter : under the skin, 
with the point of the lancet, the pus was inserted into several 
parts of the throat of a very healthy-looking ass, and pus was also 
gently rubbed by the finger into the Schneiderian membrane of both 
nostrils of the same animal. Within two or three days he became 
dull, coughed, and refused his food ; both submaxillary glands 
