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given us the history of this disease, which they term 4 muorano.’ 
44 Dupuy, however, in his prefactry history— 4 Partie His- 
torique, contradicts this account on the authority of M. M. Masse 
and Jourdain, two French veterinary writers, who have been at the 
pains to translate the writings of the Greek Hippiatrests, and from 
whom, he says, we tear n that the father of medicine himself, 
Hippocrates, was acquainted with the disease, and has in its con¬ 
firmed stage, pronounced the malady incurable, 
44 Bourgelat, 1765, the great founder of the French veterinary 
school, believed glanders to have its source in the corruption of 
the blood and humors of the body, and thought there was a great 
analogy between ulceration of glanders and venereal chancres. 
44 Paulet, however, as we learn from Hurtrel d’Arboval, was 
the French writer who specially drew attention to the similarity 
there existed between glanders and syphilis. 
44 There is a class of diseases affecting man, eruptive in nature, 
and several of them contagious—the exanthemata whose character 
it is to commence with fever, which on the appearance of the 
eruption, either altogether leaves the patient, or much abates in 
violence ; and to these diseases, glanders and farcy, in this respect, 
may be said to bear more or less analogy ; this, however, is not the 
case with syphilis* even after it is supposed to have become con¬ 
stitutional ; a circumstance in which it differs from glanders, 
though by many between the two diseases there has been thought 
to be, and it must be confessed there certainly is, in some other 
respects, a good deal of resemblance.” (Percivall’s Hippopathol- 
ogy, Yol. Ill, article, Glanders). 
Van Helmont (1682) sought to refer to glanders the origin of 
syphilis. 
Mr. Gollman writes (on Diseases of Urinary and Genital Organs, 
p. 143) : 44 As regards genuine syphilis, it is not by any means im¬ 
possible that this disease, like glanders and small pox, may have 
been transmitted to man by the brute creation. It is well known 
that many diseases are engrafted upon the human species by ani¬ 
mals, and are afterwards developed among mankind as a disease 
peculiar to them.” 
*“ Syphilitic fever usually disappears soon after the general eruption comes 
out.” (Keys, Ibid., p. 102). 
