ON THE CURE OF GLANDERS. 
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inflammation, and that management must be radically reformed 
ere we can remove the inflammation or its consequences ; there¬ 
fore, I say, that the breathing of a cool and pure atmosphere 
must constitute the foundation of our remedial practice. 
The Reputation of some Nostrums founded on the subsequent 
turning out. —The majority of those who pretend to cure glan¬ 
ders, recommend that the horse should be turned out after he 
has taken a quantum sufficit of their medicine. In fact, if any 
good is accomplished, it is principally or entirely by the turning- 
out. 
The Danger of Contagion in turning out. —A salt marsh is, 
above all others, the place for this experiment; but there is a 
great deal of caution required here. No sound horse must be in 
the same pasture, or in a neighbouring one; the matter conveyed 
by the wind across a hedge may communicate, and has communi¬ 
cated the disease. The palings or the gates may receive a portion 
of the matter, which may h arden upon them, and, many a month 
afterwards, be the source of mischief; nay, I may, perhaps, be 
justified in saying, that the virus may cling about the very herb¬ 
age, and empoison it. I should hardly dare trust even cattle and 
sheep with a glandered horse; for the experiments are not suffi¬ 
ciently numerous or decided as to the exemption of these animals 
from the contagion of glanders; at all events, I should fear the 
reception of the virus on an abraded surface. We must, then, I 
fear, have a little field devoted to the glandered horse, and to 
him alone. I would not admit even other glandered horses, for 
they might be reinfected. 
The impossibility of Local Applications. —We return to the 
nature of the disease— chronic local inflammation, terminating in 
constitutional affection. Can we get at this local inflammation, 
and, either by some emollient or sedative application, or by 
that which will produce a temporary greater irritation, but of a 
different character, successfully attack it? Why, in the first 
place, although we know it is an affection of the Schneiderian 
membrane, we do not know of what part of it; and, therefore, 
we must apply our injections hap-haxard. In the next place, we 
can get at but a certain small portion of the membrane by any 
means that we can adopt. By trephining the nasal bones we 
only reach the upper meatus, and there chancres have rarely been 
found. By trephining the frontal or malar bones, we get at the 
frontal and maxillary sinuses; but the fluid, or the discharge 
from them, pours into the nostril a considerable way down the 
cavity, leaving the upper portion untouched ; and one moment’s 
inspection of the contents of the nasal cavity, and their relative 
situation, will convince us that it would be a vain attempt to get 
