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the nose ; button farcy, if taken early, might be cured ; 
neglected cold, or injudicious treatment, would result in glan- 
ders; it was prejudicial to ride a horse having such symptoms 
as had been described. 
Mr. Small, Veterinary Surgeon, examined by Mr . O' Hagan. 
— Is a licentiate of the Royal Veterinary College of London ; 
has heard the evidence respecting the cause of the horse’s 
death; from the symptoms described the case must have been 
one of button farcy, which, in the natural course of the disease, 
ended in glanders ; the pimples and lumps described to have 
been noticed on the inside of the hind leg and along the neck, 
which subsequently suppurated and became running sores, 
were what is commonly termed buttons or buds, from which the 
disease derives its name; the seeds of the disease must have ex- 
isted in the animal the day before, probably several days, pos- 
sibly a week before the buds assumed the appearance described; 
weakness is not a consequence of this disease, but very often 
a cause ; debility, whether arising from oppression of over- 
work, or the consequence of any disease, will cause farcy and 
glanders ; it is not an infectious disease at all, nor is it con- 
tagious until the farcy bud suppurates ; it is only the matter 
that issues from the sore can produce the disease in another 
horse; only by inoculation — by the introduction of the virus 
into the system of another animal, by its absorption through an 
abraded surface, that the disease can be communicated; a horse 
standing in the same stable with a patient in button farcy that 
had not arrived at the stage of suppuration, would not catch 
the disease ; is quite sure of that ; farcy often ends in glanders ; 
no horse ever dies of button farcy, if he is not cured, he will 
die glandered ; glanders is not infectious, it is only contagious, 
it can only be communicated by inoculation or absorption of 
the virus ; stables are often infected ; has heard it said that 
for years the infection will remain in a stall ; remembers one 
instance of a horse becoming glandered that was left in a 
loose box, in which two years before a horse had died of 
glanders; in that case the virus must have lived upon the 
timber or walls of the stables ; such is not my opinion ; but- 
ton farcy is a serious unsoundness in a horse. 
Cross-examined by Mr . Meade . — The pimples or buds would 
take two or three days at least to appear externally, after the 
disease had existence in the blood and system of the animal, 
whether the cause was oppression or contagion ; the poison 
may be in the constitution probably a week before a common 
observer would notice or recognise the disease by any ex- 
ternal symptoms ; there is always great difficulty in curing 
farcy; has great experience of this disease; has seen thou- 
