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of drawing- proper inferences from what they saw; for until the 

 foundation of the Veterinary College in London, it never was satis- 

 factorily explained. Experiments however, made at that institution 

 many years ago, have proved decisively, that the virus of the Farcy 

 and that of the Glanders is of the same kind. If its effects be exhi- 

 bited in the constitution, in the way which has been described, the 

 disease is called Farcy. If the poison altack the secreting- membrane 

 ■of the nose, it is called Glanders, in the year 1795, whilst assisting 

 in the prosecution of several experiments, that were made at the 

 Veterinary College of London, I took some matter with a lancet, 

 from a bud of a farcied Horse, and smeared it with my finger upon, 

 without inoculating, the mucous membrane of the nose of a souiM 

 Ass. — On the eighth day after the experiment, the animal was in, 

 what might be termed, the last stage of Glanders. The Glands 

 under the jaw were greatly enlarged, and hardened, the membrane 

 of the nose much ulcerated, the head enormously swelled, and so 

 rapid had been the progress of the disease, that the animal appeared 

 to be dying, in consequence of the high inflammation which ha<l 

 .^aken place, in the mucous membrane of the lungs. And a similiar 

 upshot (extremely like.what happens in the disease called a Galloping 

 Consumption,) I have, not unfrequently, observed to carry off sud- 

 denly, some Horses which had been, a long time previously, affected 

 with Glanders or Farcy, but more especially the latter disease. Fdr 

 vit is well worth while attei>ding, to this material distinction, with 

 respect to the specific euects of Farcy and Glanders, on the gene- 

 ral constitution of the Horse; namely, that if the Glanders be the 

 primary disease, it may, and frequently does, exist for mondis, or 

 4"veu years, witliout appearing- to hurt the general health or vig'Ofir 



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