CURSORY REMARKS. 
413 
Four years have elapsed since the horse was affected ; it is now 
perfectly well, and there has been no return of the complaint. 
It maybe asked, Was the horse really glandered ? Of this 
there does not admit a doubt. The two farriers who attended it, 
and others who pretended to a knowledge of the diseases of 
horses, were decided as to the nature of the disorder : and 
certainly, if the symptoms laid down by Youatt and others, 
can be depended on, the animal had confirmed glanders. Bloody 
viscid sanies flowed down and glued the nostrils ; and in the 
left one the membrane was studded with chancerous ulcerations 
as far as the eye could reach. The glands under the throat 
were greatly enlarged, and the animal was attenuated and weak. 
The least motion affected its breath, and from the rapid progress 
of the affection there was no prospect of the brute living longer 
than a few weeks. The intractable nature of the affection led 
to the proposal of the animal’s being destroyed, therefore the 
case for experiment could not be considered as the very best for 
trial ; yet the animal is a living instance of recovery from this 
dangerous affection ; and as no other drug was given during the 
exhibition of iodine, the action of the medicine was not influ- 
enced by any other. I am not so sanguine as to expect that 
iodine will be found to be a specific in the disease ; yet as it 
has not hitherto been exhibited in a mode to insure its effect, 
1 think, from the successful proof of its powers related above, 
that it deserves attention ; and I cannot but express a hope that 
the farther trial of this active medicine (the properties of which 
require yet more extensive investigation) will be attended with 
a continuance of success shewn in man. 
Lancet , vol. ii, 1836-7, p. 580. 
CURSORY REMARKS 
ON THE NAVICULAR DISEASE— THE EFFECT OF OIL OF TURPEN- 
TINE IN SPASMODIC COLIC— THE MEDICINAL POWER OF EMETIC 
TARTAR — THE THEORY AND TREATMENT OF THOROUGH-PINS 
AND WINDGALLS— BROKEN WIND; ITS RARE OCCURRENCE IN 
FRANCE— THE DIFFERENT FEEDING AND WORKING OF FRENCH 
AND ENGLISH HORSES— THICK- WIND— CASTRATION ; THE PRO- 
PER TIME FOR IT IN DIFFERENT HORSES— ON CASTRATING THE 
RACE HORSE AND THE HUNTER. 
By Nimrod. 
I commence my second contribution to The Veterinarian 
with remarks on the May number, and have reason to believe that 
I shall conclude it with the same, the subjects discussed being 
of more than common interest : but to any man who has a 
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