CAUSES OF GLANDERS. 217 



in Whitechapel, informed Mr. Vines, " that for sixteen years he 

 has kept a horse in a stable generally containing a number of 

 glandered and farcied horses, but this horse has never been af- 

 fected." (P. 168.) 



Delwart, 1837, veterinaire de premiere classe, Professor at the 

 Veterinary School at Cureghem-lez-Bruxelles, and formerly of the 

 Royal Veterinary School at Alfort, after making mention of other 

 causes, says, "but so many facts militate in favour of contagion, tiiat 

 it is impossible to call it into question. So long as observation 

 and experience are wanting to convince us to the contrary, we shall 

 continue to regard glanders as capable of transmission from one 

 individual to another; and we shall recommend our Sieves, and all 

 persons charged with the care of animals, to separate with scrupu- 

 lous precaution any such as may shew the slightest signs of 

 glanders*." 



HURTREL d'Arboval, 1838 : ''The majority of the French vete- 

 rinarians of the present day, if they do not entirely deny the con- 

 tagiousness of glanders, have come to think that it is a more rare 

 occurrence, and one attended with more difficulty than it was for- 

 merly. Many have come to the conclusion that glanders is conta- 

 gious only in the acute form, and this, at the time we are writing, 

 is the opinion most commonly entertained." ..." For our own part, 

 however," says D'Arboval in winding up this paragraph on conta- 

 gion, " we can conceive a disease to be more contagious at one period 

 than another, but not in any distinct form. Either a disease must 

 be contagious in all its forms or varieties, or in none of them ; or 

 the so-called forms are no longer the same diseaset." 



Leblanc, 1839, a veterinarian of repute in France, and in Eng- 

 land too, from his literary works, comes to the conclusion, after an 

 examination into the different kinds of glanders and farcy, that "m 

 all their forms they are contagious, though in different degrees J." 



Blaine, 1841 : " Both glanders and farcy originate in contagion ; 



* Pathologie Speciale, ou Description des Principaux Animaux Domestiques. 

 t Dictionnaire de Modecine, de Chirurgie,'et de Hygeine Vetcrinairea, 1838. 

 \ Des diverses Espcces de Morve et de Farcin, 1839. 



