576 
ON THE COMMUNICABILITY OF GLANDERS 
is capable of producing either glanders or farcy, or, what is more 
usual, these two affections conjoined. 
This comparison between syphilis and the farcino-glanderous 
affection has already been made by some veterinarians ; and they 
have inferred that these diseases are actually identical from their 
possessing so many points of resemblance. The word chancres 
being common to both diseases, has perhaps tended to confirm 
them in this notion ; but they speedily discovered their error, and 
at the present time are, most of them, quite convinced of the indi- 
viduality of this latter disease. 
Messrs. Berard and Denonvilliers appear to have entertained 
the abovementioned opinion ; for they say*, “ there are numerous 
points of resemblance between syphilis and glanders ; both are at- 
tended by pain, tumours, ulcerations, and alterations innumerable 
in the nasal cavities, the throat, the air-passages, and the osseous 
and cutaneous systems.” 
These points of resemblance become still more evident when 
the two diseases are closely compared ; it will then be found 
that their progress, and the development of the symptoms, is 
equally irregular in both : and this method of regarding the far- 
cino-glanderous affection will evidently lead us to lay down the 
following proposition : — Glanders and farcy are hut the manifesta- 
tion of the 'presence of farcino-glanderous virus in the system ; 
they are , in fact, two complex symptoms of poisoning, hut not two 
distinct diseases. 
I shall at present confine myself to the consideration of the far- 
cino-glanderous affection in the human being, such as it has hitherto 
been observed by medical men. Science is already in posses- 
sion of a great number of detailed cases, which, if carefully ana- 
lysed, seem to prove that the form in which the disease manifests 
itself in the human being is not absolutely identical with that in 
which it is found existing in the solipede ; therefore I beg leave to 
propose the following nosological classification for the farcino-glan- 
derous affection in the human being. 
Acute Glanders / Simple 
Farcino-glanderous< 
affection 
Farcy 
Severe 
First, without chronic 
alteration of the nasal ca- 
vities, and generally ter- 
minating in acute gland- 
ers. 
Second, with chronic 
alteration of the nasal ca- 
vities (chronic glanders). 
* Compendium de Chirurgie Pratique, tom. i, p. 541 . 
