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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| Language: | fra |
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Presses universitaires du Midi
2018-08-01
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| Series: | Pallas |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/5513 |
| 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. |
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| ISSN: | 0031-0387 2272-7639 |