4)00 THE PRINCIPAL FRENCH WORKS ON GLANDERS. 
generally imagined. The horse should be moderately but not grossly 
fed. It is as essential not to furnish nature with a superabun¬ 
dance of nutriment, as not to deprive her of that which may be 
necessary to support the constitution against the ravages of the 
disease. Good and effectual grooming is of more consequence 
than many suppose, to keep up the insensible perspiration, and 
to restore the healthy circulation through the vessels of the skin. 
X. Preservative treatment .—This is detailed at considerable 
length, because it includes horses of the third class as well as 
the second. The second having only some of the symptoms of 
the malady, afford hope of cure; and tfye third may perhaps be 
preserved untainted, or the symptoms may be readily met at their 
first appearance. M. Chabert principally advises the appli¬ 
cation of the cautery over the frontal sinuses, and to the glands 
beneath the jaw. This had been recommended by Hippocrates. 
XI. Horses that have communicated with those that are 
glandergd .—The treatment consists in carefully watching them, 
and in increasing, as much as can safely be done, the. various 
secretions and excretions. 
XII. Purification of the stables and the equipage.— Some have 
considered that the details contained in this article are too 
minute, and the proceedings recommended too expensive; but 
they had not possessed the extensive experience of M. Chabert 
respecting the fatal effects of the contagion of glanders. 
M. Gilbert, in 1791, endeavoured to prove that the true and 
bastard strangles and glanders possess very nearly the same cha¬ 
racter. He is inclined to consider glanders as a consequence or 
degeneration of strangles, or a kind of imperfect strangles; and 
he founds his opinion on the identity which seems to exist be¬ 
tween these diseases. He says, that horses with strangles will 
give glanders to old horses, and that old horses with glanders 
will give strangles to young ones. In the pursuit of his inquiries, 
he considers the nature and affection of some cutaneous and 
mange-like affections. He does not consider that the sudden 
revulsion of them may produce glanders, but he traces them to 
the presence of the leaven of strangles, which had not been suf¬ 
ficiently evacuated in the insufficient treatment of that disease, 
and particularly he.traces it to the abuse of bleeding in strangles, 
by which the perfect suppuration of the tumour has been pre¬ 
vented. It follows, from the opinion of Gilbert, that one of the 
means to cure glanders, or at least to prevent it, is to permit 
strangles to run its full course in the young horse. 
* He attempts to prove that farcy, to which the French farriers 
have given the burlesqu'e name of cousin-german to glanders, is 
nothing but a symptom of that disease; and that it was first 
regarded as a distinct disease in consequence of the ignorance of 
farriers, who consider every symptom a new malady. 
