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diseases will reciprocally/ produce each other ; 

 whence we may conclude that they both ori- 

 ghiate from the operation of the same poison, 

 which produces different effects according to 

 the parts on which its noxious influence is 

 exerted. 



There being certain parts only of the body 

 which are obnoxious to this poison, its effects 

 are always partial in some degree; thus we 

 find the internal parts of the nose particularly 

 liable to be affected by it; the skin likewise 

 is very susceptible of its action ; and when the 

 horse is suffered to live a sufficient time for 

 the poison to acquire its highest degree of 

 virulence, or to produce its full effect, the 

 lungs do not escape the contagion. The 

 farcy maylje either constitutional or local : if 

 glanderous matter, or the matter taken from a 

 farcy ulcer be applied to the skin where the 

 cuticle has been torn or abraded, a chancre or 

 foul ulcer is produced ; which may easily be 

 distinguished from all others by its peculiarly 

 foul appearance, the edges becoming thick, 

 and the discharge consisting of a thin and 

 rather glutinous matter. It generally spreads 

 rapidly, and never looks red or healthy. The 

 absorbents or lymphatics about the ulcer be- 



