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the carriage, had sometimes complained of it. He inoculated 
some condemned horses from it, and no disease followed; he in¬ 
oculated them with matter from ether horses decidedly glandered, 
and the disease was communicated. He had a horse under occa¬ 
sional treatment, for discharge from one sinus, fifteen months. He 
tried counter-irritants in every form, and every medicine that was 
likely to have good effect, but without avail. He inoculated some 
asses with the matter, but no disease supervened. He afterwards 
bought the horse, and has worked him for two years. There was 
a small loose enlargement of the gland on the affected side, four 
or five times the size of the other, but not in the slightest degree 
tender. When the bones become eroded, some offensive smell 
may be produced ; but otherwise the foetid breath and thickness 
of discharge are tolerably satisfactory proofs that the animal is 
not slandered. 
Mr. Goodwin denied that the presence or absence of offensive 
smell was any absolute criterion. His opinion might be consider¬ 
ably influenced, but would never be determined by it. 
Mr. Henderson asked Mr. Millington whether he had wit¬ 
nessed this chronic discharge in the human subject. He had seen 
a case, in which although the discharge w 7 as long, great, and 
offensive, yet by the use of frequent blisters, the patient got well. 
Mr. Millington recollected a case of disease of the frontal si¬ 
nuses, which long continued, but was ultimately cured. 
Mr. Goodwin asked whether Mr. Turner considered glanders 
to be a tubercular disease. 
Mr. Turner believed that a discharge having existed from the 
mucous membrane of the nostril for a considerable time, a speci¬ 
fic poison would be produced capable of generating glanders in 
other horses. It depended on the susceptibility of the animal, 
and the peculiar state of his constitution at the time, whether or 
not the lungs would become affected. Disease of the lungs was 
not a necessary symptom or accompaniment of glanders. In the 
greater portion of cases, there were tubercles of the lungs ; and in 
a very small number of cases, these had gone on to vomicae. He 
had seen several cases in which the lungs were perfectly un¬ 
affected. 
Mr. Henderson bore testimony to the accuracy of this. He 
recollected one case, in which the horse had both farcy and 
glanders, but the lungs were sound. This horse had laboured 
under the disease for five or six months. Glanders here seemed 
to be the consequence of some other disease. The horse had re¬ 
ceived severe injury in one of the legs, and farcy began to deve- 
lope itself. 
Mr. I 'urner remarked that, with regard to the control we had 
