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THE EFFECTS OF IODINE IN GLANDERS. 
with farcy ulcers. They were treated by iodine administered in 
drachm doses in the form of ball, and continued until they 
became perfectly cured : but he afterwards thought that they 
were cured by certain auxiliary measures, and not by the iodine. 
On the 16th of July he injected the usual dose of the iodine 
into the jugular veins of the horses already referred to; but not 
having sufficient spirit of wine, he used sulphuric ether for two 
of them, which were now added to the list, and injected for the 
first time. Towards noon a groom came to him in haste, and 
told him that one of these horses was dead, and the other dying. 
He hastened to the stable, and found the one actually dead, and 
the other staggering — the skin cold — the pulse imperceptible — 
the conjunctival membrane of a violet colour, and the nostrils 
filled with a yellow foam, from which exuded a sero-albuminous 
fluid of a citron colour, and with which the litter was covered. 
On opening these horses, three hours after death, the lungs 
were engorged with black blood, presenting no trace of old dis- 
ease. The left ventricle of the heart was filled with uncoagu- 
lated black blood. The internal wall of the right ventricle pre- 
sented a slight ecchymosis. The mucous membrane of the 
larynx, the trachea, and the bronchi was of a deep yellow 
colour, and the vessels were highly injected. In moving the 
dead bodies, a pint and a half of this fluid escaped ; in fact, the 
presence of it had been, to a certain degree, the cause of suffo- 
cation. Neither the pituitary membrane, nor that of the pharynx, 
nor any of the other viscera, participated in this affection. The 
head was not examined. 
Some time afterwards, a horse that had previously received 
many injections of a drachm of iodine in two ounces of spirit, 
died as suddenly, and exhibited the same lesions. 
He now abandoned this medicament, convinced that it had 
no power on the lymphatic system of the horse ; but it had an 
influence, and that a somewhat dangerous one, on the mucous 
membrane of the respiratory passages, and was calculated to 
aggravate rather than relieve those inflammatory affections of 
them, so frequent and so rebellious in veterinary practice*. 
M. Patu thus concludes his memoir: “ When I joined the 
4th Cuirassieurs, four years ago, farcy was enzootic in it, and 
had effected frightful ravages. The great number of patients 
which I have had in that regiment since this period, have in- 
* In the “ Journal de Mfklecine et Chirurgie Pratique (Fevricr 1835)” 
Dr. Ordinaire, speaking of the different preparations of iodine, says, “ I do 
not contest these last properties which have been attributed to it (its power 
over the absorbent system), but I think that I have remarked that it has 
often an injurious influence on the membrane of the respiratory passages.” 
