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over the disease, he thought that by perseverance we should suc¬ 
ceed in the greater number of cases produced by infection; while 
the same treatment, possibly, would fail if the disease were gene¬ 
rated. He thought that, if taken in the early stage, most of the 
cases produced by inoculation might be successfully treated. 
Mr. Field w r as perfectly assured that experience could never 
justify Mr. Turner in encouraging such a hope, for we often found 
animals with spontaneous glanders going on from year to year, 
with the general health scarcely or at all affected, while others, 
inoculated with glanderous matter, died in a few days. He should 
assert, without hesitation, that inoculated glanders was far less 
tractable than spontaneous. 
Mr. Turner thought that the principal obstacle to our treat¬ 
ment was the difficulty of getting at the cavities in which the 
matter was confined. An obstinate local disease was thus esta¬ 
blished as well as a constitutional one. 
Mr. Field referred to the discussion of the last evening (which 
being hereafter to be resumed, we for the present omit), and asked 
whether Mr. Turner, who recommended the sulphate of iron in 
solution for the cure of farcy and glanders, and had also extolled 
the external application of it, had ever depended on the external 
application alone. 
Mr. Turner. Certainly not; but he attached great importance 
to it in farcy, and in tumefaction of the legs. He used it with a 
brush, and with very considerable friction, w 7 ith a view to its ab¬ 
sorption. Whether the frictibn of the brush, independent of the 
lotion, had good effect, he could not say; but when he could not 
make them drink the solution he applied it extensively to the 
sides, and he thought with advantage. He had put dogs with 
distemper into these baths, and afterwards rubbed them dry wfith 
flannel, and whether from the friction or the iron he would not de¬ 
termine, but the animals were better. 
The discussion now wandered to Mr. Coleman’s valuable experi¬ 
ments relating to the communication of glanders by inoculation, 
and various opinions were hazarded as to the degree in which the 
blood is diseased. 
Mr. Turner said that he had inoculated an ass with the matter 
of strangles, and glanders had supervened. 
Mr. Goodwin had met with two similar cases. - He wished to 
know what tissue was primarily affected. 
Mr. Henderson could conceive that the blood after a time might 
take on disease, but the Schneiderian membrane was the part first 
attacked. 
Mr. Field observed, that inoculation at least proved that the 
poison had traversed the blood. A great deal had been said of 
