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he should certainly consider the sulphate of coppei^ as a specific for 
glanders, vvheU administered in the first stage of the disease.’" 
In reply to another question from a pupil, Mr. Sewell said, 
that in one or two cases which had come under his notice 
of chronic glanders, with acute supervening, after the disease 
w'as eradicated there remained an unhealthy discharge from the 
nostrils, particularly in the morning, which was greater or less 
in degree, according to the animal’s work on the preceding day. 
To ascertain if this discharge was infectious, he had inoculated 
an ass with the discharge, but no ill effects followed : he there¬ 
fore considered it to be a mere nasal gleet, and not of an in¬ 
fectious nature. The gleet was produced in consequence of the 
inflammation having disorganized the secretory surfaces.” 
After a little sharp firing between Mr. Sewell and Mr. Per- 
civall, a veterinary pupil, Mr. Harrison, now veterinary surgeon, 
I believe, of the 9th Lancers, complimented both gentlemen on 
the success they had hitherto met with, and wished them still 
more in their future experiments. They both deserved the 
thanks of the profession; indeed,” he said, “he believed that 
this was all the profit they were likely to get; for in seeking 
to discover a remedy for the disease, a man must not step out of 
the way, to look like Atalanta after the golden apples. He cer¬ 
tainly was rather sceptical respecting Mr. Sewell’s remedy being 
considered as a specific; he did not wish, he said, to throw a 
damp on the matter, but only to warn those who were over 
sanguine of its success, and who fancied that it would prove 
a specific which was to act with an effect more rapid and elec¬ 
trical than the fabled touch of Ithuriel’s spear. Mr. Sewell had 
certainly cured two cases,—and Mr. Percivall had succeeded in 
curing some likewise, and each by different remedies ; therefore 
he thought that each gentleman might say respecting glanders, 
as Newton said of himself, ‘ I have picked a few shells by the 
sea shore, but the great ocean of Truth lies undiscovered before 
me.’ For the fact was, he believed, however unpalateable it 
might be to some, that the secret at present remained unsolved.” 
It would be almost impossible to record the various opinions 
on the nature and cure of glanders, as delivered on that me¬ 
morable evening. Mr. Coleman’s opinions on glanders were 
strongly advocated by many, whilst others had formed strange 
opinions of their own. Amongst the latter class, the opinions 
of IMr. Vines were most extraordinary. This gentleman had just 
obtained his diploma, and had but recently been inducted to the 
situation of Assistant Demonstrator at tlie College. He said, 
tha Solleysel was the only person who had written any thing 
worth reading on the subject of‘ glanders ; that Solleysel believed 
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