ON THE CURE OF GLANDERS. 
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Mr. Turner has some faith in the sulphate of iron : he gives it, 
however, not in nauseating, overwhelming doses, but dissolved 
in the water, and the bucket suspended in the box, so that the 
horse may drink a little at a time, and as often as he pleases. 
He says that the horse not only soon becomes habituated to the 
brackish taste of the iron, but prefers the drugged beverage to 
his common drink. Then, gentlemen, every legitimate, but not 
cruel experiment, I would urge you to practise ; for, doubtless, 
nature has provided a remedy for every disease, even for those 
which are the consequences of our own imprudence or mis¬ 
management : but I trust I shall never hear that a pupil of 
mine has wantonly tortured a poor animal in so hopeless a case. 
I must never hear of your slitting the nostril, or scraping the 
cartilage, or firing the frontals or the nasals, or injecting pepper, 
or mustard, or corrosive sublimate, or sulphuric acid. There are 
brutes in human shape who have done so, and continue to do so. 
Our practice “must be founded on the union of science and 
humanity.” 
I will not detain you with a list of the medicines, and combi¬ 
nations of medicines, which have been used in the attempted cure 
of glanders. Every article of the human and veterinary phar¬ 
macopoeia has been called into requisition, and, according to the 
opinion of some practitioner or other, successfully so. The bare 
enumeration of them would occupy almost a lecture. The few 
hints which have been suggested will be sufficient to guide you 
so far as a safe and practicable path can be traced over so intri¬ 
cate a region. 
Caution against being too sanguine .—But with regard to all 
these curative measures, again I say, be not too sanguine, not 
even although success should seem to crown your efforts, and 
that particularly in the most judicious and efficacious of all your 
means—long exposure to cool and pure air. I recollect, about 
sixteen years ago, having turned out several glandered horses: 
they were emaciated, ulcerated, and seemingly in the most hope¬ 
less condition. They had a six, or eight, or nine months’ run; 
and they came up plump, and apparently sound. I was half 
deceived, and willingly so. I had, however, the opportunity of 
tracing most of them ; and of the majority of those whose after¬ 
fate I could ascertain, this was the result. The predisposition to 
the disease remained; the membrane was in some degree irri¬ 
table; possibly the very disease remained in an insidious state; 
and in less than six months the discharge again appeared, the 
glands enlarged and became once more adherent; chancres 
soon followed, glanders was fully re-established, and that in a 
