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THE EFFECT OF IODINE IN GLANDERS. 
cres high upon the septum, the discharge from the nostril was 
very glutinous, and the left intermaxillary ganglion was as large 
as a hen’s egg, adherent, and tender. 
“ The chlorine fumigations were continued until the 24th of 
July ; but on the 30th of June the ulcers were healed, the dis- 
charge was arrested, and the glands had returned to their natural 
size. He was sent to work on the 26th of July, and continues 
well at the present moment, more than two months having 
elapsed. A mare remains at the present moment, who has also 
been cured by the chlorine alone.” 
M. Leblanc then takes up the tale, and gives an account of a 
horse and a mare, plainly glandered, that were treated with the 
chlorine and the iodine, perfectly cured, and afterwards sold — 
purposely sold, that it might be seen whether such horses 
would stand work, and whether they were capable of commu- 
nicating the disease under which they had laboured. They 
have hitherto worked well, and no infection has been commu- 
nicated*. 
In 1834, M. Leblanc again takes up the subject, and gives 
the result of three additional years’ experience of this mode of 
treating glanders ; but he does not, like M. Boisbertrand, dis- 
card the iodine. 
His first patient, in 1831, came into the hospital on Jan. 25th, 
and was discharged on Mar. 18th : on the 3d of Sept, he was 
well, when M, Leblanc lost sight of him. 
The second, on Feb. 8th ; discharged Mar. 24th, and then sold. 
The third, on July 13th, and discharged Aug. 2d. Under 
M. Leblanc’s inspection for a twelvemonth afterwards, and then 
lost sight of. 
The fourth, on the same day; was discharged Aug. 26th. 
Sold. 
The fifth was one of peculiar virulence — no fewer than twenty- 
six ulcers could be counted on the mucous surface of the nostril, 
of different sizes and depths, and all with the true salient edges. 
On the septum there were radiations of small eminences, some 
terminating in points, some rounded, and all of them filled with 
a concrete substance, mixed with a bloody fluid. The inter- 
maxillary glands much enlarged on both sides, and very painful. 
Notwithstanding this, the horse was in good condition, and fed 
well. After eight days it was necessary to suspend the fumi- 
gations, on account of the irritability of the nasal membrane, 
and the bleeding from some of the ulcers. The steam of a hot 
bran mash was substituted. The chlorine was again tried, and 
* Journal de M£d. Vet. Theorique, 1831, p. 97. 
