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urethrca or urinary passage, or the internal 

 surface of the nose, a pecuhar kind of iuflain- 

 mation is produced, and poisonous matter 

 formed, whicli has the power of producing the 

 disease in others. If glanderous matter be ap- 

 ))lied to the nose of the horse, an inflanunation 

 and discharge of matter will take place, and 

 this matter will possess the same poisonous 

 quality as that which produced it. V/heu the 

 venereal matter is applied to the skin where 

 the cuticle is verv thin, or has been abraded, 

 a chancre or ulcer will be produced, and the 

 contio-uous uplands will become intlamed and 

 swollen from an absorption of the poison, 

 which will ultimately get into the circulation, 

 and infect the whole system. When the mat- 

 ter of glanders is applied in a similar way to a 

 horse, it produces a chancre, or, as it is com- 

 monly termed, a farcy ulcer: the neighbour- 

 ing glands are iniiamed and swollen ; the poi- 

 son after a time gets into the blood, and the 

 horse becomes completely glandered, having 

 at the same time the disease termed farcy. 

 When venereal matter is applied to a sound 

 part of the same subject that produced it, it is 

 said to be perfectly hnrmless : so it is with the 

 glanderous matter. But here it must be ob- 



