THE EFFECT OF IODINE IN GLANDERS. 
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At first, fumigations with bromine were used ; but this did not 
even produce such good effect as the iodine; and consequently 
chlorine was here also substituted. Frictions of an ointment 
composed of bromuretted hydro-bromate ( $ hydro -hr ornate - 
bromurt ), the same proportion of bromine being used as of 
iodine in the former case. 
In twenty-five days the mare was apparently well. She, 
too, was destroyed. We found nothing but the cicatrices in 
the nose, and hepatization of the posterior lobe of the left lung. 
20th. Aug . — A draught horse, fifteen or sixteen years old, 
entered the infirmary. He was in good condition, but a roarer. 
There were two chancres on the left side of the septum, with a 
yellow discharge adherent to the nostril, and of a fetid odour. 
The chlorine fumigations and the ointment of the ioduretted 
hydriodate of potash were used. On Oct. 1st the horse was 
destroyed : the ulcers on the nose were cicatrized, as were two 
on the epiglottis. The lungs were sound. 
Oth Oct . — A fourth horse entered the hospital, nine years old, 
with bronchial respiration on the right side, and the coat staring. 
There were four chancres on the left side, and three on the 
right. Discharge from both nostrils fetid, and of various co- 
lours — the glands very much enlarged on both sides. The 
chlorine fumigations and iodine frictions were used. 
In about fourteen weeks the ulcers were healed — a discharge 
continued on the left side, but the fetid smell and the adhesive- 
ness of it no longer remained. There was a mucous rale on the 
right side. 
On dissection, there appeared to be many chancres on the 
mucous membrane of the left superior turbinated bone, still un- 
healed. The cells of this bone were filled with white inodorous 
pus — the frontal sinus on the same side also contained pus of a 
like quality. The right lung was partly hepatized, and the 
bronchi were filled with mucus and pus. 
It is probable that the first three horses would have continued 
sound, and been perfectly serviceable. “ For our own parts,” 
says the reporter of the commission, M. Boisbertrand, “ we 
believe that many glandered horses would be saved if the chlorine 
was resorted to soon after the appearance of the disease, and its 
use sufficiently persevered in. Although we have administered 
iodine and bromine at the same time with the chlorine, we 
think that we should have succeeded with the chlorine alone. 
In the following case the chlorine was effectual. 
“10th June, 1829. — A gelding, eleven or twelve years old, came 
into the infirmary out of a stable from which we have had too 
many glandered horses. There were two unusually large chan- 
