GLANDERS AND FARCY. 
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At the time of writing this, June 29th, the wound is quite 
healed and he is free from lameness. The bullock appears healthy, 
and thrives well, except the affected thigh, which seems to be 
thinner in flesh than the other. With this exception, he appears 
as if no disease had occurred. 
GLANDERS AND FARCY. 
By Erinensis. 
The subject of glanders must always be one of lively interest 
to the hunting and racing sportsman, and to horsemen generally : 
indeed, when we consider the direful consequences resulting from 
this disease, if it ever breaks out in a valuable stud, we know not 
any topic which has a stronger claim upon our attention. 
A very few years have elapsed since the allied diseases — glan- 
ders and farcy — were considered as belonging exclusively to the 
horse, the ass, and the mule. The late results of scientific inquiry 
have subverted this opinion, and have proved that these affections 
are not confined to the quadrumana, but that the human subject 
is as liable to be affected as either of the animals abovementioned. 
It has, moreover, been fully ascertained that glanders and farcy 
can be transmitted from man to the horse by inoculation , and 
vice versa. These are practical truths of much importance to 
the sportsman — truths which cannot be too well or extensively 
known, as we have lately seen amply proved and illustrated at the 
“ Ecole V eterin aire,” at Alfort, near Paris. Presuming that 
some information on these subjects would prove interesting and 
useful to most readers, we propose, in the following essay, to lay 
before them a succinct view of facts and experiments relating to 
this disease both in man and in the horse. 
M. Waldenger, veterinary surgeon at Vienna, was the first 
person to direct attention to the liability of man to be affected 
with glanders. He states that the greatest precaution is neces- 
sary in meddling with glandered horses, or those who have died 
from glanders or farcy, as very serious injury, and even death, 
often arises from inoculation. 
M. Levin published some observations shortly afterwards on the 
same subject, in which he mentions that a groom had his fingers 
affected with inflammation, in consequence of operating on a 
farcied horse. Tumours precisely similar to those observed in the 
horse were soon developed in this man’s limbs. They were cut 
out, or the cautery was applied ; and he was ultimately cured by 
