THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XVIII, No. 205. JANUARY 1845. New Series, No. 37. 
NATURE OF GLANDERS, 
By William Percivall, M. R. C. S., Veterinary Surgeon 
First Life Guards. 
OF the forty authors whose opinions I have sought on the sub- 
ject, no one, to my seeming, has framed a more truth-like pathology 
of glanders than M. Leblanc: a French veterinarian of considerable 
repute in his own country, and very far from being unknown in ours. 
In 1839, Leblanc published at Paris a small work* which, by acci- 
dent, came into my possession a few months ago, wherein, to my 
great gratification, I found notions entertained such as for many a 
year had been floating about in my own mind ; though with me they 
were, confessedly, rather the offspring of inductive reasoning from 
certain admitted facts than of any such practical demonstration as 
they appear to have since received in the hands of Leblanc. 
Coleman, long ago, proved beyond any reasonable ground for doubt, 
that glanders and farcy were identical diseases, or, rather, the same 
disease affecting different parts of the body ; and yet — which was 
singular enough — he never, on any occasion that I recollect, went 
so far as to say that the pimple or tubercle or chancre of glanders 
was in reality a farcy-bud or a farcy-ufcer. The proofs of identity 
in nature between glanders and farcy rest upon — 1st, their reci- 
procity of production through inoculation ; 2dly, their traceableness 
* Des Diverses Especes de Morve et de Farcin, considerees comme des 
Formes variees d’une meme Affection Generale Contagieuse. Par U. Leblanc, 
Medecin Veterinaire, &c. &c. Paris, 1839. 
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