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ESSAYS ON HORSE MEDICINE; 
COMPREHENDING THE THEORY AND PRACTICE BOTH OF THE FRENCH 
AND ENGLISH SCHOOLS. 
By O. P. Q. 
ARTICLE II. 
Dupuy 1 s Historical Abstract of the Ancient and French 
Writers on Glanders . 
The end proposed by M. Dupuy in this research was to obtain 
correct pathological views from a multitude of observations, both 
on the living and dead subjects, extended to domestic animals in 
general; commencing his investigation with a rapid exposition 
of the different opinions of the most popular French authors who 
have written any thing on the subject influential of the general 
doctrines. The work comprehends five heads or divisions, under 
which are ranged the origin, progress, varieties, comparative 
affections , and treatment , of glanders: this will suffice for the 
“ avertissementso let us now turn to the 
HISTORICAL PART. 
Lafosse senior appears to have been in error when he asserted 
that glanders was a new disease, unknown in Europe before the 
year 1494, and that it was first mentioned in the writings of the 
Spaniards; both the Greeks and the Romans have left descrip¬ 
tions, which, though imperfect, answer to no other disease but 
glanders, the former named malidin and distillation, the latter 
suspirium . Hippocrates assures us that, when confirmed, it is in¬ 
curable ; and Vegetius concurs in the same sentiments. This in¬ 
contestable historical truth, remarks Dupuy, is the sole fruits 
I have reaped from a perusal of the ancient Greek and Latin 
authors : they have not thrown a spark of light on the nature of 
glanders; it does not appear even that they gave themselves any 
concern about it, an occasion on which we might perhaps call to 
mind the critical reflection of Zimmerman: “ some authors pre¬ 
tend to discover in the ancient writings universal knowledge, 
regarding the modern as plagiarisms ; a strain adopted by certain 
fastidious minds to depreciate their cotemporaries, by which stra¬ 
tagem they hope to enhance their self-sufficiency. That the 
ancients have formed a correct j udgment of things in general, no 
one denies; but to maintain that the moderns do not enjoy the 
same advantages, is quite absurd.” 
