CONNEXION WITH GLANDERS AND FA11CY. 
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the groin and the thigh on the same side. The appetite was 
good, and the digestive function well performed. This discharge 
had first appeared about eight or ten days before. The attention 
of the owner was fixed on the swelling of the teat, which produced 
a degree of lameness, sufficiently great to prevent the animal 
from discharging her usual duty. 
“ I took six pounds of blood from the jugular vein — scarified the 
teat, and applied emollient lotions to it — made some injections of 
slightly acidulated water into the vagina — and put her on a 
mash diet. A radical cure was effected in about fifteen days. 
I thought that I was treating a case of simple inflammation, and 
therefore adopted this soothing plan. 
“ During the treatment of this mare, I was sent for to attend 
another, that laboured under a similar attack. 1 adopted the 
same mode of treatment, and with the same success. 
‘‘At the commencement of May I had other cases — with this 
difference, that the complications were more serious. I confess 
that I was astonished to have so many patients at the same time, 
each exhibiting the same symptoms ; and my surprise was in- 
creased when 1 reflected that I had never seen a similar epizootic 
or enzootic, or found an account of such an one in the works of 
any veterinary surgeon. 
“ Being informed that all these mares had been covered 
by the same horse, I endeavoured to ascertain the state in which 
this horse was. I was unable, however, to accomplish this, for 
his owner had clandestinely conveyed him away, and no one could 
tell me where he had been taken. This sudden disappearance, 
however, was of little consequence, for every day new patients 
were brought to me in precisely the same condition. There was 
an abnormal discharge from the orifice of the vulva of a yellow 
or white colour, varying much in relation to its quantity in differ- 
ent individuals, and least abundant in those that were out of con- 
dition and weakly. There were few ulcerations in the early part 
of the disease ; but when the malady had made some progress, 
chancres were sure to exist, either on the inside of the thighs, or 
round the vulva, or on the mucous membrane of the vagina. 
Sometimes a greater or smaller number were found on all these 
parts. 
“ I had always occasion to remark the sympathetic inflammation 
of the mammae, and which generally terminated in suppuration, 
especially when venesection had not been had recourse to. 
Sometimes the wound became ulcerated after the pus had escap- 
ed, and always after parturition. 
“ About a dozen of these mares became affected with chronic 
glanders. If I had only found two or three with this complication 
