ON FARCY AND GLANDERS. 
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Practical Treatise, 8cc.’’ I shall add a few notes, quite as copi¬ 
ous as, or possibly more so than, the Lectures or the review of 
them deserve. My notes will be distinguished by figures.—W. Y. 
A late^ lecturer in the Lancet and the Veterinarian still 
contends for both Glanders and Farcy being the effect of a 
poison contained in the blood.” Let all those, I say, who are 
fond of theorizing on these subjects, by all means enjoy their own 
opinions^. 
As regards the manner in which this poison is admitted into 
the blood, as also the part which it plays during the time it re¬ 
mains in the circulatory system; let them inform us, “ that at 
one time it is passive/’ and that ‘‘ at another time it is very ac~ 
tive?;” —that at “ one time it rests, as it were, at the valves of the 
absorbents, and ultimately destroys the surrounding parts by ul¬ 
ceration,”—whilst at another time it remains dormant in the 
system, as harmless as a dove, in the form of seeds of disease, only 
awaiting a favourable opportuniti/ to produce its most serious 
effects^/’ 
This kind of language, to readers not conversant with the sub¬ 
ject, may at the first view appear very plausible; but let not 
Mr. Youatt again inform those who are practically acquainted 
w'ith such matters, that at the commencement of glanders we 
shall find horses in the most healthij state, and at the same time 
that swcA disease is generated while the animal is living in the most 
filthy situations.” —How Mr. Youatt can possibly imagine that 
practical men can be swayed by such logic as this, I cannot 
understands He says, “ that the stables of the postmaster and 
* Dele “late”. Tliis mnst have been an error of the printer; no malus 
animus in the author could have introduced such a word, which, if not in its 
literal yet in its implied sense, is both inappropriate and false. 
2 Does or can any one doubt, that when Glanders, at first infianunation 
of the Schneiderian memhranefi is accompanied by chancerous ulcers, a 
portion of the poison secreted from them is taken up by the absorbents, 
and “ carried into the circulation, and mixes with the blood, and vitiates 
the blood?’’ I had imagined that Mr. Coleman’s experiment had set this 
question for ever at rest ; but Mr. Vines thinks differently, and designates 
as “ theorif the universally received opinion of his professional brethren. 
^ Is not this the character of every animal poison in different stages of 
the disease, or states of the constitution? 
* Is not this the case with the poison of vaiiola, rabies, and many others? 
But shame on you, Mr. Vines! for so sophisticating the latter part of the 
quotation. 
^ There can be no occasion for me to inform “ those who are practically 
acquainted with these matters”, that, in a variety of cases, “ at the com¬ 
mencement of glanders, and, occasionally, for a long time afterwards, this 
local affection of the Schneiderian does no injury to the yeneral health f 
