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the tissues of the body. I consider that there is a point of time 
when it is confined simply to the Schneiderian membrane, and 
without ulceration, just as gonorrhoea in man is confined to the 
mucous surface of the urethra. In these cases the general health 
is not affected, and we only observe a running at one nostril, ac¬ 
companied by an enlargement of the submaxillary gland on the 
same side. If proper medicines are administered at this period, we 
have repeated instances of cures being performed. 
I would remind the reader of the practice which our forefathers 
adopted of excising the enlarged submaxillary gland; and al¬ 
though they have not stated any rational grounds on which they 
founded this operation, yet it will he found to have been based on 
sound practical experience. Whoever will take the trouble of 
dissecting out this gland in any animal that has died in consequence 
of glanders, will find that the sympathetic irritation, having- 
existed for a certain period, has occasioned the formation of pus in 
the centre of the gland, and which, I have no doubt, would commu¬ 
nicate the disease by inoculation. It is, therefore, highly important 
to prevent its absorption into the constitution. We are too apt to 
treat with contempt the practical points of those who have gone 
before us, instead of candidly weighing their merits and demerits, 
and putting them to the test of experience. 
In farcy it is the superficial lymphatics which are first affected, 
and the farcy-buds occur only at the situation of the valves. 
Reasoning from analogy, I should consider the tuberculous forma¬ 
tions met with in the different viscera, and particularly in the 
lungs, as dependent upon the diseased action set up in the deep- 
seated system of lymphatics which ramify innumerably in all di¬ 
rections through the different tissues, and that the tubercles are 
merely the result of the inflammation set up at their respective 
valves, followed by a deposition of lymph, which, accumulating, 
becomes organized, and runs on to suppuration and ulceration. 
It is a well-known fact, that, in farcy, the diseased action set up 
in the superficial lymphatics and the consequent formation of buds, 
or superficial tubercles, can be corrected or destroyed and a healthy 
action established, which terminates in the restoration of the parts 
affected to their original state; and I see no reason why, if the re¬ 
medies are early employed, the same results should not follow as 
regards the affection of the deeper course of lymphatics. 
If ever there was a remedy more competent than another to 
produce so desirable an effect as the reabsorption of tuberculous 
deposits in the different tissues of the animal frame, and to reduce 
the diseased action to a healthy one in glanders, it is the diniodate 
of copper. 
-Mr. Bracy Clark has strongly recommended the sulphate ol' 
