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and regarded as tubercles, would probably turn out to be nothing 

 more than so m?a^y farcy -buds. With such notions as these, I 

 repeat, impressed by such a train of reasoning upon my mind, 1 

 will leave my reader to imagine with what pleasure and satisfac- 

 tion I perused the little work of Leblanc from which I am now 

 about to make some copious extracts fully confirmatory of my own 

 ideas, crude and undigested as they had long been, and might long 

 have remained, for want of opportunity in my present position to 

 put them to any sort of practical or probatory test. 



Snape appears to have been the first veterinarian who regarded 

 glanders and farcy as the same disease affecting different parts. He 

 pronounced glanders to be " farcy in the head*." In the year 1827, 

 also, a clever paper was published, '' On the Identity of Glanders 

 and Farcyt," by Gerard, a French veterinarian, the concluding part 

 of which runs as follows : — 



*' Farcy is sometimes so superficially seated, that, only the skin 

 appearing affected, it has been regarded as a cutaneous disease. 

 Considering the analogous organization existing between the skin 

 and mucous membranes, have we not reason for believing that, if 

 the pustules, instead of appearing upon the skin,, come upon the 

 pituitary membrane, these same pustules will then constitute glan- 

 ders?' — '' We have only attentively to note the symptoms to ob- 

 serve the same course in glanders as in farcy. Glanderous chan- 

 cres appear in cords prior to ulceration, resembling (chains of) 

 farcy-buds. The lymphatic glands tumefy in one as in the other 

 disease. And the puriform discharges from farcy-buds answer to 

 the discharges from the nose in glandered horses. The glanderous 

 chancre commences in a little inflamed-bud, whose summit is con- 

 tracted and rounded, and filled with serosity ; the pellicle covering 

 it becoming attenuated, bursts and discloses an ulcer, which speedily 

 acquires certain dimensions. Are not these the same phenomena 

 that farcy-buds present]" 



* Vide page 260. 



t At the time I perused the brief summary of Gerard's opinions, given at 

 page 271, I was not in possession, as I now am, of the Journal de Mede- 

 CINE Veterinaire, Containing Gerard's paper, " Sur VIdc.ntite de la Morvo 

 ci dii Farcin'^ 



