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there were seven kinds of farcy—and for his part he believed 
that there was no such thing as specific poison being con¬ 
tained in its blood;—that the blood was never diseased in any 
complaint—that the terms glanders and farcy were erroneous 
terms for the disease in question, being terms that indicated 
unhealthy disease of certain parts of the body, particularly 
those of the mucous membrane which lines the nose, the sub¬ 
stance of the lungs, the skin, and the cellular membrane under¬ 
neath/' 
An intelligent pupil congratulated Mr. Vines on his recent dis¬ 
coveries, and said, that he might now pride himself on having 
brought to light Solleysehs works, too long withheld from mo¬ 
dern sight; and that he had no doubt, when he had published 
his discoveries, his treatment of the dreadful disease, the now 
opprobrium medicumj’ will cease to be “ telum imhelle sine 
ictu,” as it so long has been, if not worse; and that then we 
might say, in the words of Cicero, that we are snatched, a 
desperatione ad spem^ ah exitio ad salutem.^’ Mr. Vines 
thanked him for the well-merited compliment, and, with his 
hair on end, like Katerfelto at his own wonders, declared, 
‘‘ that although he did not understand Greek sufficient to com¬ 
prehend all the speech he had just heard, yet he was determined 
to publish a book on glanders.” 
I have given Mr. Vines' opinion, as delivered by him to the 
society, as well as 1 am able. The gentleman spoke too fast for 
my pencil to follow him. His speech appeared to me rather in¬ 
comprehensible; the farther he went, the more he became be¬ 
wildered : like circles in the water, his arguments became weaker 
as they extended, and vanished at last in the unmeasurable and 
unfathomable space of the vast unknown. During the evening’s 
discussion, he appeared to excel more in monologue than dia¬ 
logue, never allowing any one, if he could help it, to speak but 
himself. 
i would it were in my power to do justice to every one of the 
speakers on that memorable night. Among the veterinary prac¬ 
titioners present, was Mr. Cherry, the elder. So much,” he 
said, “ had been written and published on the subject already, 
and so little to encourage a hope of any remedy, still less of a 
specific, being discovered for it, that he was very sceptical w^hen 
any new plan of treatment or cure was announced.” 
Mr. Smallbones, now veterinary surgeon, I believe, practising 
in Oxford, said that his opinions respecting a specific being 
discovered coincided with those of Mr. Cherry and his friend 
Harrison; for, on taking the sum total of reported cases and 
recoveries, he believed that the latter had been to the former 
