ON IODINE IN GLANDULAR ENLARGEMENTS. 485 
rendered available, many trials are necessary : these, perhaps, 
some of your readers may feel inclined to institute; for “a word 
to the wise is sufficient. ” 
ON IODINE IN GLANDULAR ENLARGEMENTS. 
By Mr. N. Cowell, Hatfield P ever ill. 
In the spring of 1830, a friend of mine purchased a five-year- 
old pony, with enlarged submaxillary glands. I found, upon 
inquiry, it had had the strangles about ten months previously, 
and that the glands had begun to enlarge at that time. A farrier 
had tried setons, blisters, and mercurial friction, which aggra- 
vated the evil ; and he gave him up as presenting an incurable 
case of glanders. 
I could not think that it was a decided case of that loathsome 
disease, although there was occasional slight discharge from both 
nostrils; and there was loss of flesh, dejected countenance, star- 
ing coat, &c. ; but I had immediate recourse to iodine, and gave 
ten grains of the hydriodate of potash morning and night, and 
the swelling was well rubbed with an ointment composed of one 
part of the hydriodate of potash and seven of lard. This treat- 
ment was persevered in for two months, at the expiration of 
which time an apparent cure had been performed. The swelling 
had entirely subsided, and his condition was so much improved, 
that my friend sold the pony for more than double the sum he 
had given for it. It continued quite well for about three months, 
when the disease returned with increasing violence, and (as I was 
informed) the animal was taken to London, and sold as a glan- 
dered pony. 
CASE II. 
July 3d, 1835. — I was requested to see a bullock, belonging 
to a gentleman near Maldon. My patient, a handsome little 
highland scot, and lying in a pasture with very little inclination 
to move about, is wasted very much : he is evidently suffering 
severe pain, with hard tumours upon the hocks and knees. 
He had been physicked several times, and a blister and 
charges had been applied to the swellings ; but under this treat- 
ment he daily got worse. I then ordered five grains of hydriodate 
of potash night and morning, and the dose to be increased one 
grain daily up to fifteen grains ; the tumours, at the same time, to 
be well rubbed twice a-day with the ointment of the hydriodate 
of potash. 
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