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upon,) yet, would even this admission go but a small way, in esta- 

 blishing- iMr. White's notion, respecting the frequent locality of Farcy 

 in the Horse ; especially, as it appears from this gentleman's I6th ex- 

 periment, (his own corollary upon that experiment fully admitting the 

 validity of my argument,) that the premeditated application of the 

 infectious matter, to a small healthy looking sore, in a sound horse, 

 merely retarded the healing of the sore, for a time, without produc- 

 ing either Farcy or Glanders So that, I think, Mr. White is re- 

 duced to the dilemma of either maintaining that the infectious mat- 

 ter is frequently absorbed by being merely deposited on the cu- 

 ticle, when no wound exists, or of admitting that Farcy, can, in 

 no instance, any more than Glanders, be considered a. mere local 

 disease. • 



But, Mr. White has certainly rendered it higWy probable that in 

 all cases where Glauders is communicated from a diseased to a sound 

 Horse, the poison is either swallowed in the food or water, or is 

 licked up from the rack or manger, and is in this way carried into 

 the system ; instead of being applied to the membrane of the nose 

 in the first instance, and being absorbed from thence by the lym- 

 phatics, which carry it ultimately into the blood. Now, though 

 Mr. White's experiments do not decide this point positively, as he 

 has himself, indeed, candidly admitted, yet, all doubt is completely 

 removed from my mind, as to this being by far the most common 

 mode, in which the infectious matter is carried into the system of a 

 sound Horse. 



Whilst at the same time, I think it highly probable, that the 

 glanderous poison which is discharged from the nose of the diseased 



