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their skin, but in the horse this disease (if it may 

 be so called) is confined to the stomach. 



Farcy and glanders, I believe, are diseases pe- 

 culiar to the horse. I know of no other animal 

 subject to them. They are contagious diseases, 

 but may be produced without contagion, by bad 

 stabling. The poisonous matter of farcy 'aiU pro- 

 duce glanders, and vice versa. Farcy is now as- 

 certained to be a disease of the superficial absorb- 

 ents; whereas in all the old books on the veterina- 

 ry art, it is represented as a disease of the veins. 



A horse glandered has the whole mass of blood 

 contaminated. This may be considered by medi- 

 cal gentlemen as an important fact, as it goes to 

 prove the doctrine of humoral pathology. That 

 the whole mass of blood is diseased in a horse af- 

 fected with glanders has been proved by the follow- 

 ing experiment made by Mr. Coleman, Professor 

 at the Veterinary Institution, England. He took 

 a young healthy ass, an animal, as he states, pecul- 

 iarly susceptible of the disease, and introduced a 

 pipe having a stop cock into the jugular vein, uni- 

 ted by means of an ureter to another pipe, which 

 he introduced into the carotid artery of a glander- 

 ed horse. He then bled the ass to death, by open- 

 ing his carotid artery, and turning the stop cock, 

 admitted the blood of the horse into his vessels, 

 and resuscitated him. The result was that the ass 

 became violently glandered. He inoculated other 

 asses from the matter produced in him, and was 

 "able to carry on the same disease. 



Corns in the feet of horses are very unlike 

 Corns on the feet of the human subject. There is 

 nothing that grows on the feet of horses that con- 

 stitutes corns. There is no increase of substance 



