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ON^GLANDERS AND FARCY, AND THE EFFECTS OF 
THE DINIODATE OF COPPER. 
By Mr. T. MAYER,yw7i., V.S., Newcastle-under-Line. 
There is no disease in the horse which has more completely 
baffled the profession in correcting its fatal career and effecting a 
cure, than glanders. It has, for many a year, engaged the earnest 
attention of our most celebrated practitioners; and, although many 
of them have succeeded in elucidating its nature and general cha¬ 
racters, and the different organs and organic tissues Avhich it affects, 
they have, until lately, advanced but a little way towards the per¬ 
fect eradication of the disease. 
This cannot be wondered at when we consider that, after it has 
progressed to a certain point, it occasions such extensive alterations 
of several of the viscera, and particularly of the lungs, as is totally 
incompatible with their carrying on the functions which are indis- 
pensible to vitality, and which no remedial measures can restore to 
their healthy state. We should, not, however, despair because 
we cannot accomplish all that we wish, but exert ourselves as far 
as circumstances and the means which we have at our disposal 
will permit. 
In venturing to address the Editor of The VETERINARIAN on 
this important subject, let me not be supposed to imagine that I 
can effect more than others far abler than I have done: but as I 
have found in the diniodate of copper that which I consider a far 
more powerful medicine than any that I had previously employed 
in combatting glanders and farcy, it is a duty which I owe to the 
profession to lay the results of my short experience relative to it 
before them, in order that others ma}’ be induced to give it a fair 
and a full trial, and lay the result before the public. Then, I hope, 
a most important and powerful medicine may take that proper 
station in our pharmacopoeia which it is so justly entitled to. 
Whoever has read Dupuy’s work on glanders cannot but lament 
the dreadful ravages committed by this disease. He gives a his¬ 
tory of almost numberless morbid examinations of horses destroyed 
by glanders. His work does him great credit for the zeal and in¬ 
dustry which it exhibits, but which unfortunately led to no happy 
results in a remedial point of view. 
This excellent author w'as not correct in the conclusion that 
glanders could not exist without the previous formation of tuber¬ 
cles, or, in other words, that tubercles were the proximate cause of 
glanders; for Vines has shewn, in his morbid examinations of this 
disease, that it can exist without tubercular formations in any of 
