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and tlien present what seems to me the true theory of this 

 disease, or, at least, one supported by known facts. 



If glanders is ajntrel^ local affection of the nose, how is it 

 that the disease can be produced by inoculation in the heel of 

 the hind-foot, or any other remote part of the system ? Is the 

 poison carried through the system to the nose, and there de- 

 posited, to return again and affect the constitution? Or does 

 it find its way, like vermin, through the hair, on the outside? 

 Again : if an affection of the membrane of the nose, in its first 

 stage, why is it that it may remain in the form of farcy, until 

 the system is well-nigh destroyed, before any symptoms of true 

 glanders are presented? And again, still, how can those cases 

 be accounted for which go on to a fatal termination without 

 any signs of the affection of the nose? I mean farcy. And 

 why is it that, long before any ulcers have formed in the nose, 

 the constitutional derangement has progressed so far as to pre- 

 sent unmistakable indications of the work of the destroying 

 pestilence? And, lastly, why should bad food, surfeiting, ex- 

 posures to foul weather, overworking, ill-ventilation, offensive 

 gases, and the exhaustion consequent on other diseases, be 

 expected to leave the general systeni, and take up their resi- 

 dence in the membrane of the nose, and from thence come 

 forth to attack again and destroy the constitution of the ani- 

 mal? I most certainly reject this idea of the nature of gland- 

 ers, as opposed to all the known phenomena of the disease. 

 Indeed, if glanders is to be regarded as originally a local dis- 

 ease, I think it would not be difiicult to show that the luno-s 

 have the advantage of the nose, in claiming the original seat of 

 the disease. 



I will simply present one argument in favor of the priority of 

 the lungs. If horses are killed as soon as known to be gland- 

 ered, ulceration will be found in the lungs, when the mem- 

 brane of the nose has not reached this stage of the disease; 

 and, at a later stage, the lungs present much greater ulcera- 

 tion than the nose does. From what has already been said, 



