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glanders and farcy, admits, in our opinion, of considerable doubt. 

 Once let glanders and farcy be the acknowledged result of a 

 common cause acting upon a body free from all specific predisposi- 

 tion created by taint or pollution, or by lymphatic tempera- 

 ment*, and the door is thrown open to the admission that glanders 

 and farcy are producible after the manner of ordinary disease, and 

 that every inflammation of the Schneiderian membrane attended 

 by ulceration and fetid discharge constitutes a case of glanders: 

 in a word, that there is no such thing as cominori lymphatic disease, 

 no other ulcerous affection of the nose save glanders. For these 

 reasons, and for one other, it is that we regard with the greatest 

 suspicion as to their true nature the following cases extracted from 

 the practical work of Mr. Smith on glanders : we cannot, in our 

 own minds, conceive how horses can become " instantly glandered," 

 and as " instantly affected with farcy." We have no doubt, as 

 we said before, that cold and heat suddenly or intensely applied 

 produce effects such as have been described; but we would not— 

 could not, consonant with any notions of the specific character of 

 such diseases — call them by the names of glanders and farcy. 



"June 22d, 1793, the Second Dragoon Guards (of which Mr. Smith was 

 the Veterinary Surgeon) encamped on the plain of Cysoing. The weather was 

 extremely hot. In about a fortnight afterwards, however, they experienced 

 a few days of incessant rain, accompanied by a high wind, in consequence of 

 which many of the horses in two troops that faced the wind became severely 

 affected about the head. In four cases, the nostrils were rendered quite im- 

 pervious, which occasioned their death ; and several others that were less 

 affected became instantly glandered. But in the other two troops, whe7^e the 

 horses stood in a contrary direction^ no case of the disease tookplace^. 



Case II. — "August 16th, 1806, the (same) regiment paraded in marching 

 order on the Hoe, at Plymouth, at three o'clock in the morning. The horses 

 remained there upwards of five hours without moving, during which time 

 they were exposed to a very heavy fog. The consequence of which was, that 

 four young horses that stood without saddles or cloths ivere instantly affected 

 with farcy ^ and one of them exhibited symptoms of glanders also. Those 

 affected with farcy recovered : the other was shotf." 



That glanders and farcy have epidemically prevailed in humid 

 atmospheres and in damp stabling seems no longer matter of doubt. 



* Read Rodet's Account of Glanders, at page 271 . 



t The Horse Owner's Guide. By T. Smith, V.S., Second Dragoon Guards. 



