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NATURE OF GLANDERS. 
to the same causes; 3dly, their termination one in the other, which 
almost invariably takes place, when they are suffered to run their 
natural course, previous to death; 4thly, their frequently simultane- 
ous appearance in the same subject, together with the similitude of 
the phenomena and course they exhibit. 
Assuming it, then, as proved, that farcy and glanders are in 
their nature but one and the same disease affecting different parts 
of the body, and it being admitted that farcy is a disease affecting 
the lymphatic system, it of course follows that glanders can be no 
other than disease of the same system of vessels ; and, supposing 
that this were proved, it would also follow that the pimples we 
see rising upon the septum nasi after inoculation for glanders, and 
on occasions in idiopathic glanders as well and which Dupuy called 
and regarded as tubercles , would probably turn out to be nothing 
more than so many farcy-buds. With such notions as these, I 
repeat, impressed by such a train of reasoning upon my mind, I 
will leave my reader to imagine with what pleasure and satisfac- 
tion I perused the little work of Leblanc from which I am now 
about to make some copious extracts, fully confirmatory of my own 
ideas, crude and undigested as they had long been, and might long 
have remained, for want of opportunity in my present position to 
put them to any sort of practical or probatory test. 
SNAPE appears to have been the first veterinarian who regarded 
glanders and farcy as the same disease affecting different parts. He 
pronounced glanders to be “ farcy in the head.” In the year 1827, 
also, a clever paper was published, “ On the Identity of Glanders 
and Farcy*,” by Gerard, a French veterinarian, the concluding part 
of which runs as follows : — 
“ Farcy is sometimes so superficially seated, that, only the skin 
appearing affected, it has been regarded as a cutaneous disease. 
Considering the analogous organization existing between the skin 
and mucous membranes, have we not reason for believing that, if 
the pustules, instead of appearing upon the skin, come upon the 
pituitary membrane, these same pustules will then constitute glan- 
ders'!” — “ We have only attentively to note the symptoms to ob- 
serve the same course in glanders as in farcy. Glanderous chan- 
cres appear in cords prior to ulceration, resembling (chains of) 
farcy-buds. The lymphatic glands tumefy in one as in the other 
disease. And the puriform discharges from farcy-buds answer to 
the discharges from the nose in glandered horses. The glanderous 
chancre commences in a little inflamed bud, whose summit is con- 
tracted and rounded, and filled with serosity ; the pellicle covering 
it becoming attenuated, bursts and discloses an ulcer, which speedily 
* “ Sur VIderttite de lu Marco et du Farcin.' 
