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will act as a sedative is used; but these agents are not 

 always harmless, as they frequently result in the death of 

 the horse which takes them. However, all these arts are 

 set at nought if the horse be taken to a pond, and there 

 allowed to swill at his pleasure. The characteristic cough 

 returns. The sedative is overpowered for a short time by 

 the refreshing draught, and broken wind is detected as the 

 natural state predominates. 



GLANDERS. 



This fatal and loathsome disease has long been the scourge 

 of a noble race of animals — horses. 



The editor's account of the nature of glanders and farcy 

 will be short : we have every reason to believe that glanders 

 and farcy are but modifications of each other, and that both 

 originate in one common poison : innumerable facts and 

 well-conducted experiments have set this matter beyond 

 doubt ; for horses have been inoculated with the matter of 

 farcy, and the glanders has been the result : glanders has 

 also been produced by inoculating with the matter of glan- 

 ders : farcy has been brought on likewise by inserting the 

 matter of farcy : and, lastly, the artificial introduction of 

 the matter of glanders has occasioned a true appearance of 

 the farcy. Some authorities, however, deny that any weight 

 is to be attached to such results, and assert that these dis- 

 eases can even be produced artificially, by means foreign to 

 contagion or to individual poison. In answer, we would 

 remark, that it is the very essence of all poisons to be 

 governed by their own laws, and to own only certain modes 

 of operation. Small-pox, syphilis, and the rabid poison 

 have remained the same in their symptoms, mode of propa- 

 gation, and terminations for ages. We have alw^ays, therefore, 

 ourselves, felt convinced of the specific nature of this affec- 

 tion, w^hich for variety in its mode of production, continua- 

 tioni and termination, has no parallel ; and to which only 

 we can attribute the unsettled state of the opinions con- 

 cerning it ; but which do nothing to uproot its claim to the 

 character of a direct and peculiar poison, that can always 

 beget its like, and its like only. It is quite true glanders 

 can be produced by great debility, induced by any cause, 

 as abortive strangles, influenza, or even by the injection of 



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