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tioii — glanders and farcy are nothing more than '' unhealthy dis- 

 ease" of the " mucous membrane which lines the nose, the substance 

 of the lungs, the skin, and the cellular membrane underneath" (p. 4). 

 This constitutes the groundwork of Mr. Vines' doctrine. — On the 

 subject of pulmonary glanders, Mr. Vines assures us that " there 

 are cases, both of glanders and farcy, where no alteration or dis- 

 organization of these parts (the lungs), or any disease of the lungs, 

 are to be found" (p. 11). — " Glanders and farcy have hitherto 

 been most commonly described and treated as distinct and separate 

 diseases; whereas they are, if properly considered, only the un- 

 healthy, and, not infrequently, the latter stages of common inflam- 

 niatory diseases of certain parts of the body, generally of the mu- 

 cous membrane of the nostrils, cellular tissue, or substance of the 

 lungs, the skin, or the connecting cellular membrane underneatJi ; 

 and the inflammatory diseases which glanders and farcy most fre- 

 quently follow are those termed strangles, true and false ; com- 

 mon colds ; distemper ; acute and sidiacute inflammation of the 

 lungs; general or local dropsy (anasarca or cedema) ; and the 

 latter whether it occurs from general or local debility, conjointly 

 with grease, or injuries of different parts of the body or not ; as, 

 for instance, when a horse has been for a time labouring under one 

 or other of these common inflammatory diseases, from the effect of 

 which, or by improper treatment, the system has been brought into 

 an unhealthy state. When such changes as these take place, and 

 the discharge and ulcerations become unhealthy, the disease with 

 which the animal was before afflicted is now altered from its ori- 

 ginal character; and, under these circumstances, the animal is usually 

 considered to have become glandered oi farcied. Glanders and 

 farcy not only follow such diseases as have been just mentioned, 

 but also appear sometimes in unhealthy and debilitated animals 

 from over-exertion and other causes, and without being preceded 

 by any of the former named diseases of a common inflammatory 

 character : and this is occasioned by the system being reduced to 

 an unhealthy state, from the same causes as those which, in more 

 healthy and vigorous animals, looidd be found to produce strangles, 

 common colds, inflammation of the lungs,'' &c. (pp. 12-13). In cases 

 of glanders foUowinuj colds, &c., Mr. Vinos does not consider them. 



