Part third of A series of elementary lectures on the veterinary art : wherein the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the horse, are essayed on the general principles of medical science / by William Percivall.

  • Percivall, William, 1792-1854.
Date:
1826
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    ascertained this Tact during- his stay ut Tunis and Tau- giers. M. Simon, veterinary surgeon to the King of Portugal, assured him that he had not seen a glandered horse during the thirty years he had been residing in Lisbon. Is a cold and humid temperature the only cause ? Might not we suspect that castration contributed much towards it ? I have observed, that this disease more f requently attacks geldings than stonehorses and mares. We know that in countries wherein glanders appears to be enzootic, it is the custom to submit horses to this enervating operation, one which stamps his form and character with the seal of imbecihty and pusillanimous- ness. We know that the immeiise tribes of wandering Tartars, the Cossacks upon the borders of the White Sea, the Kirguses, the Bashkirs, and the Nogayans, the Basians, the Karakalpaks, and the Kalmucks, who make as much and perhaps more use of horses than we do, are unacquainted with any means of depriv- ing them of their organs of reproduction. We arc as- sured that they have no knowledge of the disease under consideration, which, if it be true, will con- firm what I have just been advancing. In Spain, Bar- bary, Egypt, and Arabia, all the horses are entire. We observe that glanders less frequently atfocts horses of small stature, those of slender. make, but muscular and high-couraged, than large, coarse, phleg- matic subjects. It would appear that a certain period of age is favorable to its development. I have no- thing very positive to offer on this point; so far as my observations go, they show that among forty glandered horses there were but two under five years old, and but five above twelve. PART JI J. 2 k