208 MR. youatt’s veterinary lectures. 
few of the boasted specifics for every disease have passed this 
ordeal! The specifics for glanders have not. Certain medi¬ 
caments have apparently succeeded; in other, or in the same 
hands they have afterwards failed. Gentlemen, I am urgent in 
endeavouring to impress this on your minds, because I know that 
youth is sanguine, and many have deluded themselves, and com¬ 
promised their reputation and injured their employers. 
The Cure should, however, he attempted. —Do 1, then, recom¬ 
mend you to abandon, or to refuse to treat, every case of glan¬ 
ders that may be submitted to you? No; no. I only ask you, 
in the first place, not to impose upon your employer, but une¬ 
quivocally to state the apparent hopelessness of the case; and 
then, if the animal is valuable, and the owner wishes and urges 
you to attempt a cure, do so. Set at work about it in good 
earnest, and thankful that you have the opportunity to do so ; 
and, further than this, when you have opportunity, without its 
being too burdensome upon you, seek out for cases, and experi¬ 
ment upon them at your own expense. The desire to relieve your 
profession from this blot upon its character is a laudable one; and 
you will be repaid by the consciousness of having been engaged 
in a good cause, although there should be no successful ter¬ 
mination of your labours. 
A pure Atmosphere the first Remedial Measure. —Can I guide 
you as to the course you should pursue ? A consideration of the 
nature of the disease may afford you some useful hints. The 
seat of the disease is that vascular and sensitive membrane which 
lines the cavity of the nose; and the predisposing cause of the 
disease is, that frequent or habitual state of excitement, and 
consequent debility, to which this membrane has been absurdly 
and cruelly exposed. Glanders is the peculiar disease of the 
stabled horse. Then, it is evident, that the preparation for, or 
the foundation of a cure, must consist in the perfect removal of 
every exciting cause of the malady. The horse must breathe a 
cool and pure atmosphere. He must be turned out, or placed in 
a situation almost equivalent to being turned out; otherwise 
that, the accomplishment of which was merely possible, even 
under the most favourable circumstances, becomes perfectly out of 
the question. I have laboured to impress it upon you, that the af¬ 
fection of the nostril, in its earliest form and appearance, is not 
the local symptom of a constitutional disease . The disease is at 
first purely a local one, and it long continues so. It is only 
when the part is debilitated, disorganized by the continuance of 
inflammatory action, or the local inflammation runs its usual 
course, that the vitiated secretion is absorbed, and the consti¬ 
tution empoisoned. Our bad management produced this local 
