146 Glanders. 



Now, as to the question of the sound Horse having the faculty of 

 originating the Glanders in his own system; this is a point, which i 

 have so fully discussed, and, I trust, so satisfactorily proved, by what 

 I consider to be fair induction from a great body of facts, which 

 appear to me, to carry conviction along with them, that I do not 

 think it necessary to repeat the arguments, which have been already 

 advanced upon this subject. But, I cannot help bestowing a few 

 remarks upon some points of Mr. White's opinion, respecting the 

 nature and origin of Farcy and Glanders, which seem to be somewhat 

 irreconcileable with each other. 



And I think it necessary first of all to premise, that I do this from 

 no design either of merely inviting controversy, or of supporting a 

 favorite hypothesis of my own ; and much less from a wish to lessen 

 the professional character of Mr. White, which stands too high in 

 the public estimation to need any eulogium from my pen. It appears 

 however, that Mr. White fully agrees with me in opinion on one 

 essential point respecting the nature of the poison; admitting that 

 in both diseases, (or to speak more correctly, perhaps,) both forms 

 of the disease, it is precisely of the same kind. 



But he maintains, at the same time, that in the form of Glanders 

 it is always a constitutional, whilst in that of Farcy, it is frequently 

 a local disease. Now, I would ask, how comes the affection in the 

 skin in Farcy, or indeed in any other part of the system, ever to be 

 purely local. For, even if we admit, that in all cases where Farcy 

 Buds first arise, the skin has been previously wounded or abraded, 

 and, also, that Farcy or glanderous matter has been applied to such 

 sores, (two points by the bye, which are purely hypothetical, and 

 which ought rather to be considered as postnlata, than data, to argue 



