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Having been informed that all these mares had been covered 
by the same stallion, I was anxious to ascertain the state in which 
lie was; but this was impossible, for the owner had sold him 
clandestinely, and I could not discover into what part of the 
country he had gone. This sudden disappearance threw a new 
light upon the whole affair, especially as every day I had new 
patients. 
I may state the following as the general character of the com¬ 
plaint:—increased discharge from the orifice of the vulva, of a 
white or yellow colour, differing in quantity in different patients, 
and, in general, most abundant in weak and emaciated subjects. 
Few ulcerations appeared when I was called in at the com¬ 
mencement of the disease ; but when that was not the case, and 
the disease had made progress, chancres were constantly found, 
either on the integument on the inside of the thighs, or on the 
edge of the vulva, or on the membrane within the vagina; and 
it often happened that chancres, more or less numerous, appeared 
on all these places at the same time. 
I had always occasion to remark sympathetic affection of the 
mammae, the termination of which was generally in suppuration, 
and especially when bleeding had not been practised. In some 
patients, the wound whence the pus had escaped became deeply 
ulcerated; and always, when the tumour being left to take its 
natural course, the orifice was large. 
About twelve of these mares became affected with chronic 
glanders. If it had been found that only two or three had ex¬ 
hibited this complication of disease, I probably sliould not have 
attributed the appearance of mange to the malady now under 
consideration ; but I found the number too great for me to avoid 
the conclusion that the appearance of glanders was connected 
with the inflammation of the genital parts, and induced by it. 
All these mares had been covered at nearly the same time, and, 
generally speaking, in those to which I was first called, the dis¬ 
ease was only commencing, and yielded easily to antiphlogistic 
treatment, the employment of general bleeding, scarifications 
of the udder, and emollient or acidulated injections into the 
vagina. As to those which I had occasion to see afterwards, 
the cure was more difficult to accomplish, and, indeed, was only 
accomplished after a treatment of six weeks or two months^ 
duration. I then ceased to employ general sedatives or debi- 
litants, but made the local treatment more active, using bitter 
injections (gentian), or styptic ones (alum), and more or less con¬ 
centrated, as the case seemed to rec^uire. The ulcerations result¬ 
ing from the breaking of the abscesses on the udder were |)ow- 
dered with bark. 
