OF THE GLANDERS. 
349 
It is an old saying*, that “ there is nothing* new under the sun." 
Some of our veterinarians seem of late to be endeavouring to 
prove the truth of this by their frequent references to antiquated 
authorities. We found fault with Mr. Vines, a little while ago, 
for quoting so often from, and seeming to pin his faith so much 
on tne sleeve of some of these old writers. He is eternally re¬ 
ferring us to Solleysel. We will amuse our readers w ith a short 
summary of Solleysel’s opinion of this said disease of glanders. 
Really, if Mr. Vines" book w ere not, so far as pathology is con¬ 
cerned, a thousand times better than that of his favourite author, 
Le Sieur de Solleysel, querry to the French king, it would not be 
w orth our readers’ attention or our review. 
Chap. 18, page 28 .—Of the Glanders . 
The glanders is a flowing or running at the nostrils, of phleg¬ 
matic, tough, white, red, yellowish or greenish humours, which 
are sometimes derived from the spleen, almost always from the 
lungs, rarely from the liver or kidneys. The thinner humours find 
a passage through the c-oeliac vein, or the passages of respiration ; 
and the thickest are carried to the throat, where they fall into a 
little receptacle between the two jaw-bones, and from thence by 
degrees dilating themselves, they form and nourish the kernels 
that are conspicuous to the eye: and the rest of the humour flows 
out of the nostrils, and discovers the nature of the disease. 
These thin streams alter the very substance of the brain, and, 
being condensed or thickened by the natural coldness of that 
part, produce a humour of the same nature with aquafortis, which 
by its acrimony irritates the parts, and augments the ulcer ; from 
whence proceeds that troublesome flux of humours through the 
nostrils. And whereas the two jugular veins furnish and com¬ 
municate a great quantity of blood to the brain, the substance of 
which is already altered by the malignant vapours that glide 
thither perpetually through the coeliac vein, as to the head of an 
alembic, the blood, instead of being further purified, according 
to the established order of nature, is corrupted, and from thence 
falling upon the lungs, heats them, and being rendered incapable 
of performing its appointed task, to nourish and refresh that part, 
serves only to augment the ulcers that are ready formed in it. 
To begin the cure, you may, by way of precaution, take up the 
two veins in the neck, two fingers’ breadth beneath the place 
where the horse is usually let blood. 1 advised you not to cut 
the vein between the two knots, because I have seen horses 
killed by so doing; for the knot slipping, it was impassible to find 
the end of the vein; and besides the motion of the blood is 
stopped as effectually by taking up the vein as by cutting it. 
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