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ON SPECIFIC FEVER OF HORSES, OXEN, &c. 
I have prevented the local affection by dissolving one part of the 
chloride of soda in twenty-four parts of water at the temperature 
of fresh drawn blood, and gTadually and carefully injecting' it 
into the jugular vein. If the operation is properly performed, 
the animal experiences no inconvenience, and the fever, whether 
produced by inoculation or arising spontaneously, subsides. As, 
however, to the secondary affection—the glanders, tuberculated 
lungs, farcy, &c. I dare not hold out hope that this treat¬ 
ment will be productive of any good effect. They who like 
may try it, where the constitution is not broken up by disease. 
I do not agree with Mr. Sew^ell, that the lungs are the seat 
and origin of glanders—See a sketch of Mr. Seweirs introduc¬ 
tory lecture in The Veterinaeian for 1827; but it is my 
opinion that the blood is most concerned in the affair, as proved 
by the transfusion of blood from the diseased to the healthy ani¬ 
mal by Mr. Coleman. The lungs are the medium only through 
which the blood becomes diseased, whether producing fever pri¬ 
marily, or rendering a local disease specific, as common catarrh, 
becoming at tijmes contagious, or accidental wounds being fol¬ 
lowed by farcy or glanders. 
In my time, from 1816 to 1821, the home stud at Hissar, in 
Hurrianah, on the border of the desert, consisted of fifty mares 
and their produce. The latter were attacked by this fever from 
three months to four years old, the local malady being gene¬ 
rally diseased lungs, and the younger the colt the more severe 
the malady. The stock was kept in two ranges of loose 
boxes opening inw'ards, the intermediate space being straw- 
yards, in which, or the paddocks, they were always at liberty 
in the open air, except when housed on account of the extreme 
heat duringr the hot winds, on the frosty niohts in the cold 
season, or the torrents of periodical rain. They were all well 
fed and clothed. 
This stud was afterwards increased to one hundred mares, 
sixty or seventy of which annually produced young ones. Colts 
were also purchased from native breeders, and these were more 
predisposed to be attacked by this fever, and the results of it, 
strangles, catarrh, and diseased lungs, than the home produce; 
so were horses in that part of the country, particularly along the 
Cugger river, where the natives call it the Faitah, and since the 
old canal was opened along it also. Here, then, the influence 
of moisture had much to do with the production of this fever, 
but it could have no influence on the stud', as the river is distant 
several miles. The canal runs close by it, but that is since my 
time. I have crossed this desert from Butneer to Bahawalpoor, 
and moisture could have no influence whatever here. 
