148 Glanders, 



Horse, may, now and then, find its way up the noitril of a sound 

 one, and in this way infect the system. 



Upon the whole, however, after the fullest and most candid con- 

 sideration of all Mr. White's arguments, I see no good reason, for 

 agreeing- with him in opinion, that Farcy is frequently a local 

 disease. 



That it never is so, I am by no means prepared to assert, but, I 

 am at the same time perfectly convinced, that cases of local Farcy 

 are as rare, as those of local Glanders ; and as the precise moment 

 of their being so, can neither be fixed nor seized upon, so as to 

 enable us to trust solely and implicitly to the use of external remedies, 

 (unless in the instances of premeditated inoculation) it will, in all 

 cases, be found the best and safest practice, to direct our views 

 chiefly, to the use of such remedies as act upon the constitution, 

 which must be amended or altered, before the disease can be cured. 



Now, if any further proof were wanting, of these diseases being 

 almost always constitutional, and of their springing from the causei 

 which have been so much insisted upon, in this and the preceding 

 chapter (and which are still more fully explained under the head of 

 Stable Management) I think it may be furnished from the great 

 susceptibility to the action of the infectious matter which has been 

 proved by the experiments of Mr. White and other Veterinarians to 

 exist in asses. 



Now, when do we hear that these animals are subjects of either 

 Farcy or Glanders ? I have never seen or heard of a case, of thii 

 kind, except in those instances merely, where they have been inocu- 

 lated for the purpose of experiment. 



