TUBERCULOUS DISEASE OF ANIMALS IN INDIA. 135 
malignant kind of fever, 5 ’ inoculations from the local affec- 
tions of which seldom fail, but produce tuberculous disease 
in some tissue : in general the glandular system, secreting or 
lymphatic, takes the course of the absorbent vessels and 
glands, superficial or deep-seated, and various forms of local 
disease in all animals. “ That all young animals are subject 
to a similar kind of fever, from predisposition in the young 
animal’s organisation, from delicacy of the tissues.” 
Where animals, as in India, are in the open air, this season- 
ing lasts a very long time, and is not as in Europe, where 
animals are closely stalled, only temporary. Young animals 
are very cheap in India; and had Mr. Western inoculated, as 
I suggested, he would no doubt have been able to have sent 
us some valuable information on that disease, now called in 
Europe, “ exudative pleuro-pneumonia,” which has had, as he 
will see by Professor Simonds’s able report, the attention of 
government, and the consideration and experiments of very 
able men ; and which, unless the French settle the matter, 
will by all accounts remain here, as the similar forms of 
disease are, in India, a vexed question. I should be glad to 
see my professional brethren there now able, from their sick- 
registers and notes, to prove, as Mr. Western has done in 
regard to bursautee, that seasoning animals is equally effica- 
cious in preventing that incurable form of tuberculous dis- 
ease, called cc exudative pleuro-pneumonia.” It is a subject 
they will see worthy their research, under the favorable 
circumstances they have for experiments of this kind. 
The late Professor Coleman said “ that, in old horses with 
glanders, the lungs frequently had tubercles, and he was of 
opinion the matter from the lungs was not infectious, as he 
had not been able to show it was glandered, and was capable 
of producing the disease, although the cause that produced 
it may be the same, and produce matter in both cases, some 
was not infectious ; thus the secondary symptoms of the 
venereal disease is not contagious. It does not follow that 
though it is produced by the same cause it should take on 
the same specific action.” Again, in regard to inoculation 
of farcy “ by applying the farcy matter to the cellular mem- 
brane below the skin , you will not have farcy, not always 
glanders.” The late Professor Sewell, at one time, said, “ he 
could certainly produce tubercles in the lungs by inoculating 
with tuberculous matter taken from the lungs.” Some have 
tried to produce strangles, by inoculating with the matter of 
strangles, and failed. At the stud in India, they succeeded, 
and produced such malignant forms of this tuberculous dis- 
ease that they were glad to drop the subject, and thought the 
