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THE VETERINARY ART IN INDIA. 
By J. Grellier, Esq., M.R.C.S . 
[Continued from page 172.] 
GLANDERS. 
Glanders is supposed to be the same complaint as farcy, but 
attacking a part of greater consequence from the contiguity of 
membranes and bones in the head. 
What led to this opinion was the frequent termination of one 
disease in the other. This has been still farther supported by 
inoculating a sound horse with the matter taken from the ulcer 
of a farcied one, and the result was glanders. It is remarkable 
that the only part of the sound animal that will receive the 
infection is the nostrils, where the matter must be introduced. 
Farcy is not so contagious as is supposed. 
An argument in favour of these diseases arising from the same 
proximate cause, is the result of a very common experiment at 
the Veterinary College — introducing the blood of a farcied horse 
into the circulation of a sound one. Glanders will thus be very 
speedily produced. 
It therefore appears that the matter from ulcers of the ab- 
sorbents is peculiar and only affects absorbents. Thus, in long- 
continued and occult farcy, the matter is absorbed into the system, 
and the absorbents of the head become affected, and glanders 
is produced : and if farcied blood is introduced into the circula- 
tion of a sound horse, the absorbents of the membrane lining the 
nostrils being more irritable than those on the surface of the skin, 
they become first diseased. 
Very fortunately this inveterate malady is not so frequent in 
this climate as in England. This variation may be occasioned, 
in some measure, by the mildness of the climate compared with 
that of England, also from the irritable membrane of the nostrils 
not being in this country exposed to the saline and acrid exhala- 
tions arising from confined and foul stables. 
It also frequently arises from tedious glandular swellings of the 
throat improperly treated ; also, from inflammation of the mem- 
branes of the nostrils and wand pipe from cold. 
It may be first discovered by the edge of the nostrils being 
tight, contracted, and giving the animal great pain when handled; 
the membrane lining the nostrils being much inflamed, and 
generally covered with small ulcers. The glands under the 
throat swell, the eyes will frequently appear full, a very foetid 
