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ture, corresponding to the nefarious plants, aconites, upases, 
deadly nightshades, which grow upon the soil. We shall 
have to enter this field ; for the very malignity of the poisons 
shows the energy with which they will work for us when 
they are duly broken in. 1 shall now conclude by showing 
how safely all these poisons may be employed; and that they 
may be at the disposal not merely of the few, but of every 
one who will take the care and trouble of preparing them. 
For the cost of a few shillings, a whole county may receive 
the benefit of these remedies for a twelvemonth ; and any 
humane person, medical, clerical, or common, may have the 
Christian privilege of dispensing them. 
The following theory has sketched itself out for me rela- 
tive to the action of glanders, which, to save words, I state 
affirmatively. 
The poison is actively centrifugal, and tends to abolish 
the centres of vitality by powerful ejection of their minutest 
contents : the spaces being filled up with matter, the result 
of malignant or destructive inflammation. It is the type of 
vital destructions ; and begins its ravages in the nose of the 
horse, because that is the spot where it can most easily ex- 
plode its first seeds of disease : it wants space for throwing 
off and sowing its poison. It is good in all malignant ulce- 
ration and excessive expectoration. And its general curative 
indication is, wherever extrusion of contents overbalances 
supply of nutrition. It is the opposite to arsenic , which cor- 
rodes by stopping function, and isolating parts ; this over- 
energizes, explodes, and scatters the grains of living 
organisms. 
Farcy is the same thing in parts where expulsion cannot 
go on ; in which case destruction and retention of the des- 
troyed parts have place. The lymphatic system is attacked, 
because it is the nutrient or supplying system, and it is 
affected by reaction. Glanders is the direct action ; farcy 
the inverse. 
Now to obviate the objection of danger, as well as to dis- 
seminate and laicize the remedy, I will state the mode of 
preparation ; premising that I have taken glanderine myself 
for obstinate catarrh, and with only beneficial results. 
By the aid of an experienced veterinary surgeon (I have 
enjoyed the invaluable kindness in this respect of Professor 
Spooner, principal of the Veterinary College), procure in 
small one-drachm bottles the matter from the nose, and 
from the lungs, of infected horses immediately after their 
destruction. The glanderine from the nose and from the 
lungs, and the farcine, should be of course in separate bottles. 
