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ulcer; the complaint therefore must have affected the system, and, 
such being the case, topical applications would alone have been 
insufficient. The medicines made use of internally were helle- 
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bore, antimony, and vegetable tonics: the utility of the latter no 
one will dispute, but the benefit of the former I should fancy 
must be apocryphal : its effects are considered to be nauseating 
and debilitating, and, as such, I cannot understand its beneficial 
agency in glanders. Mr. S. does not say whether the farcy sore 
extended or was cured by topical applications, and it does not 
usually occur that a farcy ulcer remains solitary. The disease, 
however, was undoubtedly glanders, and the cure appears to 
have been perfect, as nine years have since elapsed. Has Mr. 
Storry never met with any cases during this long period on which 
he could put in practice his fumigating plan? and if so, have 
they been attended with success? ‘‘ One swallow does not make 
a summer.” 
The cures of glanders are, unfortunately, like “angels’ visits, 
few and far between but they are occasionally made, and why 
should they not? If the disease is confined to the membrane of 
the nostrils, the matter has a free exit, and the ulcers may be 
healed by topical applications, or by improving the tone of the 
system, and bringing about a healthy action ; but if the com¬ 
plaint extends to the sinuses of the head, the pus that is formed, 
having no means of discharging itself, will excoriate the sur¬ 
rounding membrane, and affect the bones of the head : and in 
cases of this sort, every medicine must have a similar result, 
whether it be the sulphate of copper, or cantharides, or any 
other that the fertile fancy or ingenious folly of man has de¬ 
vised. A specific for glanders is still undiscovered ; and that and 
the philosopher’s stone, I imagine, will be found together. 
I dare say many practitioners could instance cases of glanders 
having been cured. I remember one decided case, and one 
which could be traced to contagion, presenting visible ulceration 
of the Schneiderian membrane, and hard enlargement of owe sub¬ 
maxillary gland. The medicines internally administered were 
arsenic, and the oxymuriate of mercury, combined with vegetable 
tonics; a mercurial liniment was applied to the gland, and an 
astringent lotion to the nasal ulcers. A cure was, by these 
means, completed, and the horse had no return of the complaint. 
In a case of confirmed and considerable nasal gleet (neither 
attended with cough, nor preceded by catarrh), accompanied 
with a slight enlargement only of the glands, the sulphates of 
iron and of copper effected a cure. In another case, of con¬ 
siderable discharge of pus from the nostrils, sudden in its com¬ 
mencement, and irregular in its continuance , powdered lyttse. 
