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THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



Mr. Thoiiias Smith, M. Dupuy, and Mr. Vines, de- 

 serve the greatest credit, and a careful perusal of their 

 works will convey all the information to be gathered 

 up to the present time on these important heads. On 

 the connexion between these diseases Mr. Vines 

 says — 



" Farcy and Glanders are indicated by affections 

 of separate parts of the body, the former appearing in 

 the skin, and the latter in the mucous membrane of 

 the nose and air-passages ; and the symptoms are found 

 to follow various inflammatory diseases, and always to 

 depend on the unhealthy state of the system, which 

 are the effect of those diseases which farcy and glan- 

 ders are found to follow, as well as from a variety 

 of other causes. 



*' The most general way of accounting for this by 

 the modern veterinarians has been, that Farcy and 

 Glanders are one and the same disease, and that the 

 same poison produces both, but that while circulating 

 with the blood it attacks such parts of the body as are 

 most susceptible of its action ; when the membrane 

 of the nostrils or lungs are affected, constituting Glan- 

 ders — and when the skin and lympatic vessels, Farcy. 

 It is against this notion of an imaginary poison that 

 I so strongly protest, and fearlessly assert that the 

 symptoms of Farcy and Glanders are the effects of well 

 known external causes ; and that when the system is 

 brought into a debilitated and unhealthy state, those 

 parts which are naturally the weakest and most pre- 

 disposed are consequently rendered more susceptible 

 to the exciting causes, and the parts to which they are 

 most powerfully applied are those which soonest be- 

 come diseased. As for instance, if a horse is in an 

 unhealthy and predisposed state, and any exciting 

 cause acts on the skin, Farcv will be the result ; and 



