THE PRINCIPAL FRENCH 
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In 1786, Don Alonso Rus Garcia, of Madrid, compared 
glanders with the small pox of the human being. Glanders, 
however, can have no connexion with that eruptive disease, nor 
will Don Garcia be able to persuade his hearers of the identity 
between them. He relates, on the faith of two letters written to 
him by Don Calzuclos, that the treatment which he recommended 
being pursued, and which contained in it nothing particular, 
glanders might be easily cured; but he does not offer sufficient 
proof that the horses that were submitted to this treatment were 
really glandered. In an appendix, he severely criticises Lafosse 
as to the seat and treatment of glanders, and says that no horse 
had been cured in Spain by the operation of the trephine, although 
it had been practised by the most skilful veterinarians. 
Among the boasted remedies for glanders published from time 
to time, those that were most extensively tried, and longest main¬ 
tained their repute, were the antimonial preparations of Jacquet; 
the ash-wood quenched in ale, the mixture injected into the nos¬ 
trils, recommended by one of the Dukes of Norfolk, and the com¬ 
pound of which savine is the base, discovered by Chevenet, and 
which cost government an immense sum without producing any 
useful result. 
Government, in 1784, considering that glanders was a disease 
for which no remedy had been discovered, and that it propa¬ 
gated and perpetuated itself in all manner of ways, wished to 
put agriculturists and farriers in possession of the means by which 
they might at all times distinguish it, and they charged M. Cha- 
bert to draw up an account of its prevailing and characteristic 
symptoms. This was published in the following year. It was 
divided into twelve sections. 
I. The Symptoms hy which the existence of Glanders may be 
recognised .—These vary in different individuals, and in the three 
stages of the disease. Many of them are common to strangles, 
pneumonia, pleurisy, and nasal gleet, and with which it is dan¬ 
gerous to confound them; but discharge from the nose of a fluid 
more or less thick, enlargement of the submaxillary glands, and 
chancres on the membrane of the nose, are the most usual 
symptoms, and often exist at the same time, which is not the 
case with the other maladies for which glanders may be mis¬ 
taken. In addition to this, the diseases abovementioned, always 
acute or inflammatory, run their course in a short period, whereas 
the progress of glanders is generally exceedingly slow. 
II. Post-mortem appearances .—No viscus will usually offer 
decisive traces of this cruel malady, but the head and the chest 
exhibit the principa lesions. 
III. Causes of Glanders .—These are either evident or conjec¬ 
tural. Among the former is the communication of sound horses 
