NATURE OF GLANDERS. 3 
acquires certain dimensions. Are not these the same phenomena 
that farcy-buds present V* 
Turning from these accounts to the observations of Delafond — 
that, “ in an immense majority of cases,” glanders originates “ in 
the lymphatic system,” and that, in nature, it “ consists of an 
alteration of the lymph as well as of the vessels conveying it,*” — 
we find the ground well prepared for laying the foundation of the 
pathology of glanders ; and that Leblanc has achieved a great deal 
towards erecting a plausible and natural superstructure thereon, 
will, we think, appear manifest from the following extracts from 
his pamphlet: — 
LEBLANC regards GLANDERS, whether it be chronic, or acute, 
pustulous or gangrenous, and FARCY, be it chronic or acute, as but 
different forms of one and the same disease — but aggravations or 
ameliorations of one common or general contagious affection, hav- 
ing its apparent seat within the nasal fossae or in the lymphatic 
system, and consisting in lesions as follow : — 
In a general alteration of the fluids of the body, in 
particular of the lymphatic fluid. This turns yellow and becomes 
coagulated within the canals of the lymphatics and the cavities 
of their glands; the tunics of the vessels thickening and turning 
opaque, exhibiting red points upon their inner surface, and ad- 
hering in places to the coagula within, and in other places grow- 
ing more or less softened, without, as yet, shewing ulceration. 
In time, all the thickened parts of the vessel partake of this 
softening, spreading from a single point upon its circumference, 
the coagulum within softening likewise, and the cellular tissue 
corresponding to the point of ulceration becoming tumefied, then 
hardening, and lastly softening. And now a little tumour exists, 
having its seat, in part, in the lymphatic vessel, in part in the cel- 
lular tissue, observably close upon the situation of the lymphatic 
valves, which accounts for the accumulation, the lymphatic fluid in 
its incrassated or coagulated condition not being able to pass the 
valvest. This explains the knotted aspect of the corded swellings 
in farcy. When the little tumours or farcy-buds have the lymphatic 
vessels for their seat, they are not tardy in ulcerating their way to 
the surface through the skin. When deep seated, they grow large 
at the expense of the surrounding cellular tissue, which either ulcer- 
ates or sloughs, and thus contributes to the abscesses. 
The fluid the softened farcy-buds contain is found pretty uniform 
in its character. It commonly proves a mixture of viscous fluid 
and coagulated matter ; of infiltrated and softened cellular tissue ; 
* D’Arboval’s Dictionary, article “ morve.” 
f Coleman regarded the valves as insusceptible of the action of farcy. 
