788 THE VENEREAL DISEASE OF HOUSES AND ITS 
of disease, I should scarcely have attributed the glanders to the 
previous ulceration ; but the number became so considerable, that 
I could not avoid presuming that the original source of the glan- 
ders was inflammation of the genital organs. 
“ As to those that had been early covered, the malady readily 
yielded to the employment of general bleeding, scarifications of 
the udder, and the injection of emollient and acidulated fluids 
into the vagina : but as to those to whom 1 was called at a later 
period, it was more difficult to effect a cure, and some were not 
in a sound state until six weeks or two months had passed : I 
therefore ceased to employ any general debilitants on them, but 
I rendered the treatment of the case more active by injections of 
gentian and alum more or less concentrated. The ulceration re- 
suiting from the opening of the abscesses on the mammae were 
covered with powdered bark. 
“ In some cases in which, after six weeks or two months my 
labours were not crowned with success, the proprietors, annoyed 
at the slowness with which the cases proceeded, placed their 
horses under the care of ignorant empirics, who violently purged 
them, and in a little time induced marasmus and death. That 
is not at all to be wondered at, if we consider in how many 
cases the texture of the digestive passages of these animals had 
considerably suffered in consequence of the disease, and that, 
consequently, the abuse of purgatives could only hasten the fatal 
termination of the affair. 
“ The greater part of the mares that were not submitted to any 
treatment got well spontaneously, after exhibiting the symptoms 
that have been described, during a space of six or eight months, 
or even a year. It is proper to remark, with respect to the ani- 
mals that were not bled, that there were febrile reactions more or 
less intense which exhibited themselves towards the third or fourth 
month, or after this, and that the inflammations on the mammae 
were almost interminable — no sooner one cicatrising, than two or 
three others broke out around. 
“ All of those that were affected with mange having been de- 
stroyed, the examination after death presented the following 
lesions : the external parts of generation infiltrated, and presenting 
traces of acute inflammation — inflammation of the integument 
that covered the inside of the thighs — the mucous membrane of 
the vagina thickened, red, or livid, and closely set with ulcerations 
more or less deep — the neck of the uterus ordinarily scirrhous. 
The ovaries always presented great intensity of inflammation and 
degeneracy of structure — their tissue had become lardaceous, or 
was filled with purulent matter. The peritoneum presented traces 
of inflammation in the pelvic region. The mucous membrane of 
