L’odeur comme vecteur des épizooties et la mithridatisation des chevaux

Glanders (morbus, suspirium) is a horse’s disease which was supposed to be transmitted by the breath of ill horses or emanations from dead animals in Mulomedicina Chironis 191-194. It was thus necessary to bury the cadavers, and fill the still healthy animals with perfumes of fumigation, to avoid co...

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Published inPallas (Toulouse, France) Vol. 106; no. 106; pp. 153 - 164
Main Author Gitton-Ripoll, Valérie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
French
Published Presses universitaires du Midi 16.08.2018
Subjects
fumigation
glanders
mithridatization
stagnare
stannum
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Summary:Glanders (morbus, suspirium) is a horse’s disease which was supposed to be transmitted by the breath of ill horses or emanations from dead animals in Mulomedicina Chironis 191-194. It was thus necessary to bury the cadavers, and fill the still healthy animals with perfumes of fumigation, to avoid contagion. This operation was called stagnare (equum), and it was a metaphor from metallurgic language. Gallic bronze-smith of Alesia, according to Pliny the Elder, 34, 162, covered the bronze-cauldron with pewter (stannum), to avoid oxidation: so, breathing the perfumed smoke immunizes the horses against the bad smell of glanders, like the human mithridatization by potions.
ISSN:0031-0387
2272-7639
DOI:10.4000/pallas.5513