A practical treatise on glanders and farcy in the horse : descriptive and explanatory of its origin, progress and termination, and the most effectual methods of treatment and cure / by Richard Vines, veterinary surgeon.

  • Vines, Richard, V.S.
Date:
1830
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    lost, and those which have been subsequently written, but httle known; though Dupuy has stated that Hippocrates assures us, confirmed Glanders was incurable. From the early Latin authors nothing of importance or satisfactory is to be found on the subject, until we come to the fourth century, when we find Vegetius treating on both diseases. He has described the symptoms of the Morbus Humidus, or Glanders ; and informs us, that the ancients called it the Prqfluvium Atticim, and recommends the injection of wine and oil made warm, into the nostrils, and to tie the head down with a coixi to his legs, forcing him so to walk that the humour shall run out; if blood flows it is a good sign. He has also treated on the Morbus Farciminosus, or the Farcy, (and says) that it is occasioned by humors forming between the skin and flesh, and making collections in various parts of the body, diminishing in some, and break- ing out in others; that though the disease be con- tagious, it may be cured if taken in time, and while the internal viscera are sound.* Most probably, somewhat similar notions to these continued in vogue, and perhaps with Httle or no alteration, for several centuries ; and as they occu- pied that period which has been termed the dark * Short History of the Horse, and Progress of Horse Know- ledge. By Mr. B. Clark. 1824-. Page 15.