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interpolatory paragraphs, favoured us with his own opinions on the 

 nature of glanders " These views (Dupuy's) are deserving of 

 great weight, but we cannot altogether coincide with them ; for, 

 although perhaps in the majority of cases tubercles are found in 

 the lungs of glandered horses, yet there are instances in which 

 there are none to be found there or elsewhere. The particular 

 seat of glanders is certainly the membrane lining the nostrils and 

 chambers of the head, although in a great number of cases the 

 lungs are involved. We cannot say whether in all cases the con- 

 stitution is affected, or whether in some instances the disease is 

 entirely local ; but, in the subject chosen by Professor Coleman 

 for experiment, it was clearly proved that the blood was in- 

 fected. There is evidently a much greater predisposition in some 

 horses to receive the disease, either from infection or otherwise*," 

 &c. 



TARDlEUt, bringing our literary history up to 1843, has made 

 a systematic arrangement of the several important questions touch- 

 ing glanders and farcy, and with considerable clearness and ability 

 has respectively examined them : — 



1st. He considers the identity of glanders and farcy, in respect 

 to their production — to their being allied by the same specific virus 

 — as a point settled ; but, he asks, are we thence to conclude, as 

 other writers have done, that their palhology is identical ] This 

 grave question, involving no less than the knowledge of the na- 

 ture of glanders and farcy, he confesses himself unable to de- 

 cide, further than that the diseases differ in their nosological cha- 

 racters. 



2d. Glanders he regards as essentially consisting in lesion of the 

 nasal fossce : all cases not shewing this belong to farcy ; and this 

 applies to men as well as to solipedes. 



3d. That farcy, in the chronic stage, may present different phe- 

 nomena in men and animals without losing their specific relation to 



* White's Compendium of the Veterinary Art, edited by W. C. Spooner, 

 V.S., &c. 1842. 



t De la Morve et du Farcin Chroniques, chez I'Homme et chez les Soli- 

 pedes, par Ambroise Tardieu, Docteur en Medicine, 1843. 



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