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Veterinary Journal and Annals of Comparative Pathology (Volume 41 )
Veterinary Journal and Annals of Comparative Pathology - Volume 41 Author:Books Group This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... curability of glanders carried out at Turin by Brusaco and his pupils, who are said to have cured 50 per cent, of glandered horses by tr... more »eating them with carbolic acid, iodine, sublimate, and ferri sulph. Levi and J. Neumann claim to have cured horses with tracheal injections of iodine, and potash iodide. In France they have adopted a mode of treatment and succeeded to their own satisfaction by giving glandered horses creosote in oil hypodermically. Semmer, alluding to his own work, in conjunction with Itzkovitsch, states that they witnessed recovery in a notorious case of inoculated glanders and farcy in a filly at Dcrpat. Semmer further refers to the action of ox blood serum as being useful in the cure of glanders; and in this he is supported by another observer called Barbes, who maintains that ox blood serum has a beneficial therapeutic action in glanders. Then there is Pilarios, who cured eight glandered horses in the first stage of the disease by repeated weekly injections of mallein. There is another case of cure--in the human subject--reported in The Veterinarian of last year. This case, too, was treated by frequent injections of mallein. Following similar lines Helman, who name has been mentioned in connection with the discovery of mallein, has cured one case of glanders. The horse was subsequently tested with mallein and failed to react. Injections of blood serum from this horse applied to cats and guineapigs reduced the predisposition of these animals to glanders. I gather that Semmer prefers ox blood serum to mallein in the treatment of glanders. The serum has more effect on the bacilli, which when exposed to ox serum lose much of their virulence. To prevent misunderstanding, I ought to say that a glandered horse is said to be cured when it cea...« less