276 SEAT AND NATURE OF GLANDERS. 



tion, first yield. Chancres proceed down the pharynx and larynx, 

 and gradually the ulcers spread over the frame. The acrimonious 

 fluid, mingling with the blood everywhere, begins everywhere to 

 attack that tissue which is most susceptible of its influence, viz. 

 the lining membrane of the absorbents ; and by degrees, and in 

 most distant parts of the frame — ^the hind extremities are a favourite 

 situation — the absorbents become chorded, and tumours appear in 

 the situation of the valves, and ulcerations ensue. First, the super- 

 ficial absorbents are affected ; then the deeper-seated become in- 

 volved : the whole frame is empoisoned ; farcy is established in its 

 most horrible form, and death speedily closes the scene*." 



Vines, 1833, deserves the thanks of the profession for the pains 

 he has taken in the practical investigation of a subject, some of the 

 main doctrines concerning which he has had the boldness to ques- 

 tion the validity of, and in their place has introduced others, if 

 not altogether novel in their character, at least, original in this 

 country; which I shall, by quotation, endeavour to put my reader 

 fully in the possession of. That opinion on which Coleman and his 

 followers grounded their theory of the nature of glanders — the ex- 

 istence of a jJoison in the hlood of glandered and farcied horses — 

 Mr. Vines denounces as " great error" (p. 2) : he believes neither 

 in specific disease, nor in specific poison, nor in specific effects. 

 " All the symptoms of disease which constitute glanders and farcy," 

 he avers, " invariably depend upon the unhealthy state of the sys- 

 tem, into which it is reduced or brought, and not, as is generally 

 supposed, from (upon?) a specific poison contained in the blood" 

 (p. 2). — " In common inflammatory diseases, the system is always 

 in a more or less healthy state ; but, on the contrary, when those 

 symptoms of disease which constitute glanders or farcy occur, the 

 system is always in a more or less unhealthy state ; and in proof 

 of this I may advance, that the diseases of a common inflammatory 

 nature, such as strangles, colds, inflammation of the lungs, grease, 

 injuries, &c., from neglect or improper treatment, frequently de- 

 generate into what is commonly termed glanders or farcy" (pp. 6-7): 

 so that — putting /50i50?i and specification altogether out of the ques- 



* Mr. Youatt's Veterinary Lectures in The Veterikarian for 1832. 



