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means to prevent it, and the different injections by which it may 
be cured. They are all detersive or astringent, as lime-water, 
alum, the different sulphates, alcohol and vinegar. He affirms 
that horses can generally be cured by these injections in three 
weeks or a month, but that it is necessary to continue the injec¬ 
tions for some time afterwards, and that the horses should be 
purged during the state of convalescence. He has no doubt of the 
perfect cure of the animal by means of these injections. 
M. Malouin, in 1761, tried some experiments with black an¬ 
timony, the herb perriwinkle, and repeated purging, on three 
horses, one of which he cured after a lapse of six months. He 
thinks that glanders may be divided into two kinds, the internal, 
and the external or local. 
In 1766 an empirical medicine was much celebrated in Paris 
under the name of the electuary of Baron de Sind, a colonel of 
cavalry, and chief equerry to the Elector of Cologne. The Baron 
himself said of it, “ It is the only preservative for horses that 
are sound, and it will cure all those in whom a cure is possible.” 
The composition of this electuary was not known, and it continued 
long to be held in high estimation, from the saving clause of the 
Baron, “ that it would cure all in whom a cure was possible.” 
Bourgelat, in 1767, recommended lime-water as a cure for glan¬ 
ders. He did not describe it as a specific, but, having been suc¬ 
cessful himself in the use of it, he wished to encourage the 
experiments, and to collect the experience of others. Lime-w 7 ater, 
however, did not prove to be that valuable medicine w T hich he had 
imagined, either as a cure or a preventive, and it soon fell into 
utter disrepute. 
Vitet in 1771 published his “ Veterinary Medicine.” He 
denied the propriety of the divisions of Lafosse. He considered 
it to be a simple and contagious disease. He gave some interest¬ 
ing details of it contagiousness, which have not received the 
attention they merit. He abstained to speak of the causes of 
glanders, except that he leaned to the opinion of Buffon as to one 
of the occasional causes; but he boasted of numerous cures, by 
means of fumigations with orpiment, a mode of treatment which 
had been recommended for nearly three centuries by the copyists 
of Laurent Ruse, but a very dangerous method, and which had 
produced consequences even more to be dreaded than the disease 
itself. To preserve horses from the infection of glanders, he ad¬ 
vised that the external orifice of the nostril should be anointed 
twice in the day with essential oil of turpentine; and he hinted at 
a project of which this constituted the most important part, but 
inefficacious, if, as. is now generally allowed, glanders often arises 
spontaneously. 
In 1773 M. Dutz, a veterinary surgeon, in the service of the 
