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defluxion from the eyes ,•" which latter, it will be 

 seen, at page 346, is a corresponding symptom and 

 never failing attendant upon the vives, as it is of all 

 other glandular swellings about the jaws. The 

 Frenchman thus converts a single symptom, ever 

 attendant upon depravation of the salivary secre- 

 tion or humour, into a disease ! 



In England, we do not talk or write of scrophula 

 in horses, or a disposition thereto, this being a 

 symptom of a vitiated system in carnivorous animals. 

 For the mange in dogs, scurvical or scrophulous 

 eruptions in mankind, and the farcy or grease in the 

 horse, although appearing very similar to the eye 

 of a common observer, and all originating in a de- 

 pravation of humours ; yet the immediate cause of 

 each of these differs greatly, by reason of the mani- 

 fest difference in the structure of the capillary 

 vessels, or tubes that deposite the offensive matter 

 of either kind, demand a very different treatment 

 at our hands, and we reject the anomaly of M. 

 Dupuy as inapplicable to horse-medicine. But 

 when this gentleman represents the general pre- 

 disposing cause as a " tuberculous or fistulous 

 affection, that is capable of being alleviated, pre- 

 vented, and in some cases cured" he brings his 

 arguments quite within the range of our concep- 

 tions ; and we cheerfully take all he subsequently 

 adduces, as being in perfect consonance with our 

 own doctrine respecting the predisposing cause of 

 diseases. As to ancestry, and breeding from a good 

 stock, in favourable situations, of which this writer 



