GLANDERS IN THE HUMAN BEING. 31 
nims to the ounce of water, until the parts began to alter their 
morbid state. 
These facts will add to the triumph of those speculative theo- 
rists who consider that glanders is a mere local affection. My 
purpose here is not to open the way for controversy on a disease 
that every pretender assures himself he possesses a specific for. 
The cases, however, are worthy of record. Perhaps they may 
lead to a course of experiments on the power of the creostote 
over this pest of the equine race. Let these experiments be 
fairly conducted, and let us cease to annoy others with our 
fanciful opinions, and wait until the treatment of glanders can 
be founded on a rational and secure basis. 
In a paper in the last volume of “ The Transactions of the 
Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society,” Dr. Elliotson refers 
to the above two cases. “ I am anxious,” says he, “ to mention its 
effect (the effect of creostote) in two cases of chronic glanders, 
affecting one nostril and the frontal sinuses with pain, and a 
copious and fetid discharge. The disease in the two persons 
was clearly contracted from a glandered horse; and I purpose 
doing myself the honour of laying the facts before the Society 
early next session, as I never read of or met with an instance 
like these in the human subject, former cases having been acute 
glanders or chronic farcy. The sedulous injection of a weak 
solution of creostote up the nostril removed the whole of the 
symptoms after a very few weeks ; and I hear the patients are 
still well. I need not say that the disease has always hitherto 
proved fatal in the horse.” 
With some exceptions, few and far between, and some of them 
of a very doubtful character, glanders “ has always hitherto 
proved fatal in the horse.” Should we at length find a cure for it 
in creostote, although only in its chronic form, the veterinary 
profession will be under deep obligation to Dr. Elliotson. We 
shall wait with some impatience for this valuable document’; and 
in the mean time some zealous veterinarian will, we trust, put 
the power of creostote to the test in cases of chronic glanders, 
and favour his brethren with the result. 
Y. 
HYDROPHOBIA AND HOMGEOPATHY. 
The principle of homoeopathy is that disease is removed 
by the administration of a medicine which produces an 
effect on the constitution similar to that of the malady itself. 
The motto is similia similibus curantur. Bark is a powerful 
