210 A CONTAGIOUS DISEASK IN THE GENITALS 
When, at the end of six weeks or two months, my efforts were 
not crowned with success, the owners, wearied with the tardiness 
of the cure, abandoned their animals to the ignorance of em¬ 
pirics, who purged them without reason or mercy, and in a little 
time induced marasmus and death. That will not be surprising, 
when it is considered that, in many cases, the texture of the di¬ 
gestive passages of these animals had suffered materially from 
the consequences of the disease, and then the abuse of purgatives 
could not fail to hasten a fatal termination of the affair. 
The greater part of the mares that were not submitted to any 
treatment exhibited most of the symptoms already described, and 
got well spontaneously after the space of six or eight months, or, 
sometimes, a year. It may be well to observe that in all those that 
were not bled there were febrile re-actions, more or less intense, 
about the third or fourth month; and that in most of them the 
tumours of the udder were, in a manner, interminable, for, when 
one ulcer cicatrized, two or thre‘e appeared in its place. 
All those that were affected with glanders were, of course, 
destroyed, and on examination after death displayed the fol¬ 
lowing lesions. The exterior portion of the generative organs 
was infiltrated, presenting marks of phlegmonous inflamma¬ 
tion—the skin of the inside of the thighs was almost covered 
with ulceration—the membrane of the vagina was thickened, red, 
or livid, and beset with chancrous ulcerations of a more or less 
decided character—the neck of the uterus was usually scirrhous. 
The ovaries were covered with fungous or other degeneracies, 
in the highest state of inflammation—their tissue was become 
lardaceous, or bad changed to a receptacle of purulent matter.— 
The peritoneum presented traces of inflammation about the pelvic 
region. The Schneiderian membrane was chancred, tumefied, 
and covered with fungus;—in a word, chronic glanders existed, 
and announced its existence, during the life of the animal, by all 
its usual symptoms. 
I must not say that I am yet authorized to draw any absolute 
conclusion from the facts which I have stated, but I confess 
that I cannot help tracing some analogy between this disease 
and the syphilis of the human being. 
1. The stallion which appeared to have communicated the 
disease, had, without doubt, something particularly the matter 
with him, or his owner would not have disposed of him so 
quickly and with such secrecy, when it was generally known 
that many of the mares covered by him had contracted a dis¬ 
ease in their genital parts. 
2. Every mare that I saw had been covered by this horse, 
therefore the malady under which he laboured possessed the 
