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swelling of the glands under the jaws. The animal's appetite 
or spirit is seldom affected at the first commencement; but in 
course of time, the discharge becomes more copious, and is often 
mixed with bloody matter, very fetid, and offensive in smell; 
which is owing to the inside of the nose being ulcerated. At 
this stage of the disease the animal often labours under a cutane¬ 
ous scorbutic disease, called Farcy ; the acrimonious humours of 
which fix on the pituitary membrane that lines the partition along 
the inside of the nose, which causes ulceration, and penetrates 
even into the bones. At this stage of the disease the discharge 
is often confined to the left nostril; the glands become harder, 
and more firmly fixed to the jaws, which constitutes a confirmed 
glanders, and is incurable and infectious. 
“ I will admit, in this stage of the disease, that a sound horse 
may receive the contagion; yet 1 am confident that it more fre¬ 
quently originates in the system of the animal, or is brought on 
by other diseases and local causes, than by infection. I will; 
therefore, endeavour to point out the causes that lead in regular 
gradation to the glanders. 
“ Colds proceed from obstructed perspiration, which disease the 
absorbent or lymphatic vessels, and contaminate the blood ; the 
animal is very feverish and ill, till nature relieves him in part by 
a discharge from the nostrils. If the animal be frequently ex¬ 
posed to colds, and no means used to relieve him by reducing 
and purifying the blood, his whole system becomes deranged, 
and gets into a state of morbid debility ; which generally consti¬ 
tutes the disease called Grease; and the corrosive acrimonious 
humours of Grease, by continuous gradation, if neglected, end in 
Farcy—Farcy in Glanders—Glanders in death."—p. 28. 
Does this require comment? It shall, at least, have illustra¬ 
tion—the author shall be heard on the subject of farcy. 
“ Farcy, as well as Glanders, is generally supposed to be in¬ 
fectious. There are also different kinds or stages of it: the first 
or mildest stage of it is, when the small tumours or farcy-buds 
are seated about the head, shoulders, and hips. The second, or 
most malignant stage of it, is, when the veins in the inside of the 
thigh and fore-arm become corded and set with tumours. These 
buds are small and hard at first, but soon extend and become 
full of thin, acrid, poisonous matter, and often turn into invete¬ 
rate ulcers. 
“When these tumours break and discharge copiously, the 
disease is thereby considerably mitigated, and the animal re¬ 
lieved of apart of that corrosive humour w r hich otherwise, if due 
care be not taken to prevent it, would spread through and con¬ 
taminate the whole system, unless it should vent itself by a dis- 
