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same opinion was also maintained by the editors of the u Recueil 
de Medecine Veterinaire.” 
A long time after this, some hippiatrists and veterinary surgeons 
advanced that glanders and farcy were maladies that had some traits 
of resemblance, or that they were, to a certain degree, the same. If 
they exist simultaneously in the same animal, each follows its ha- 
bitual course. The one is ordinarily healed by the efforts of nature 
or the efforts of art, the other is always rebellious to the very best 
treatment. After all, it would appear that the identity of the two 
diseases may be easily proved. Coleman and White have caused 
farcy to be developed by inoculation with glanders, and glanders 
by inoculation with farcy. There is, however, one difficulty : both 
glanders and farcy have lost, to a considerable degree, the power 
which they formerly possessed; at least, we have said and repeated 
that this is the case, and we finish by believing it. 
I am, then, of the opinion of M. Renault, and of those who, like 
him, do not believe in the contagion of chronic glanders ; but as 
for farcy I have greater difficulty, and my conviction is totally 
opposed, and carries me to the belief in contagion. It is based 
on the experiments of the inoculation of farcy made at Lyons by 
Gohier, and in virtue of which that practitioner established in 
a positive manner the contagion of this disease ; and on mine, pro- 
perly speaking, which I made in 1833 at the seventh regiment 
of artillery, when I was in the garrison at Lyons. 
On the 1st of September in that year, I took a horse affected 
with chronic farcy, the matter of which I introduced under the 
epidermis of three horses glandered — in the second degree — by 
numerous punctures made on the lateral parts of the shoulders and 
the cheeks. There was no inflammatory change — the small wounds 
cicatrized. 
This state of things remained the same, when engorgements 
and heats and pains manifested themselves on the three animals, 
and in the places at which the virus was deposited. 
These tumours assumed a rapid development : some reached 
the superior portions of the shoulder ; others directed themselves 
towards the chest, leaving between them some marked spaces 
which gave them the form of a knotted cord. Those that were 
formed on the cheeks extended around the eyes to the length of 
the glosso-facial vein, and penetrated into the nasal cavities, where 
they produced ulcerations — prominent, and differing from the chan- 
cres that are remarked in mange. 
Twenty or twenty- five days after inoculation the greater part of 
the tumours or boutons were formed into abscesses, and I did not 
remark any sensible difference from this and the spontaneous 
symptoms. The mange was not modified by the new disease — the 
