IODINE IN GLANDERS. 44i 
cines, yielded to the influence of the iodine, and after it had set 
at defiance the power of other means and appliances. Glanders, 
which seems to laugh to scorn the efforts of the veterinarian, re- 
sisted the supposed power of this new medicament*. 
In the autumn of the preceding year, Mr. Simpson, then 
of Southampton, had a patient with the left submaxillary gland 
swollen to the size of an egg, hard, and perfectly adherent 
to the bone, with occasional discharge of pus from the left 
nostril. This was a very suspicious case ; but he could not 
bring himself to believe that it was one of glanders, for the 
discharge was occasional and irregular, and not the slightest 
ulcer could be discovered in the nostril. He had been a pupil of 
mine, and afterwards a resident in my house, and we had both 
experienced the power of iodine over glandular swellings. He 
determined to put it to the test here. An embrocation composed 
of tincture of iodine with compound soap liniment was well 
rubbed into the tumour two or three times a-day, and six grains of 
iodine given morning and night. This treatment was pursued 
more than a week, but the discharge continued, and the gland 
had considerably increased in size. Still, not believing that it 
was a case of glanders, he applied a strong blister to the tumour, 
and repeated it three days afterwards. Fluctuation was then 
evident : he punctured the tumour, and about eight ounces of 
purulent matter escaped. A poultice was applied for a fa ,,T 
the discharge from the nose gradually ocaoed ; the tumour quite 
disappeared, and the animal went to work. 
This case, to a certain degree, bears on the point at issue. It 
says nothing with regard to glanders, but it proves, at least in the 
short space of time during which it was used, that iodine has 
no effect in diminishing enlargement of the submaxillary glands*. 
At the same time, under the treatment of Mr. May, of Malden, 
another and a highly valued pupil, the parotid glands in a horse 
that had become enlarged to such an extent as to render tracheo- 
tomy absolutely necessary, daily and plentiful embrocation with 
the same compound of iodine and soap liniment perfectly re- 
duced the swelling. 
In the following year my friend, Mr. Karkeek, throws fresh 
* “Veterinarian,” vol. vi, p. 381. 
* “ Veterinarian,” vol. vi, p. 38. 
f Vol. vi, p. 254. 
