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of that humbler, yet far more valuable portion of instruction, 
the treatment of disease. We have to complain of explications 
of physiology and disease by the professor, the assistant pro¬ 
fessor, and the assistant demonstrator, differing from each other 
more widely than the fundamental colours of the rainbow, and 
never, like them, beautifully combining; but leaving the student, 
whether he is preparing for examination or for practice, lost in a 
labyrinth of incertitude and doubt: and there are other points, 
on which we are unwilling to enter now, but against which, 
although ours is no factious opposition, we shall continue to direct 
the weapons of reason, remonstrance, satire, perchance indigna¬ 
tion, until the Veterinary College becomes what its founders 
designed, and its friends wish it to be. 
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DISCUSSION ON MR. TURNER^ PAPER ON INSIDIOUS 
GLANDERS. 
[November 18, 1830.] 
Mr. Henderson in the Chair. 
Mr. Field .—Did Mr. Turner examine the mare after death, or 
did he inoculate with the matter discharged ? 
Mr. Turner. —The mare was secretly taken away unknown to 
me; but I did collect a small quantity of the matter discharged, 
and inoculated two horses at a slaughter-house in London. The 
virus was inserted into the loins, as being a part far from the 
usual seat of farcy when it breaks out spontaneously. In both 
cases farcy ulcers were produced, with chains of buds proceeding 
from them, and running over the loins and proceeding to the 
inside of the thigh, with tumefaction of the limbs. 
Mr. Field .—Was Mr. Turner assured of the previously healthy 
state of the inoculated horses ? I scarcely recollect a period at 
which farcy and glanders were more prevalent than now. There 
are two studs of horses belonging to poor persons that are at the 
present moment dying with glanders, and the owners do not know 
that they were ever exposed to infection. 
Mr. Turner. —There were many horses in the yard, and I se¬ 
lected two which seemed to have been sent there for no other 
reason than because they were incurably lame. They were very 
poor, but apparently free from all disease. The circumstance of 
farcy appearing first at the spot at which the virus was applied, 
and far from the usual situation of farcy, rendered it perfectly 
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