ON FARCY AND GLANDKRS. 
and unhealthy disease that it is a strange and unintelligible 
connexion of terms^^and in this review of my Practical 
Treatise/^ in the Veterinarian, he has very kindly done me the 
favour, when taking an extract from page 7, on the General Ob¬ 
servations on Glanders and Farcy, —not only of stopping short 
in the middle of a paragraph, but likewise of a sentence; and 
by so doing he has very cunningly left out i\iQ facts which are 
there brought forward in support of my remarks, which he has 
taken away. And then, in order to serve his own purpose, he 
has wound up the matter by saying that ray observations on 
those subjects, barring misappropriation of terms and ambi¬ 
guity in language, are good sound pathology, the frequent ap¬ 
plicability of which cannot for a moment be doubted.”—Now, 
what mortal, previously to the publication of this discovery of 
Mr. Youatt, could for a moment have supposed it possible that 
good and sound pathology could co-exist with wrong applications 
of terms and ambiguity in language ? The poor man talks down¬ 
right nonsense; and even if the terms had been misapplied, which 
I contend is not the case, it was his business, if he had acted 
the part of an impartial reviewer, to have pointed the errors out. 
This he has not done. No: Why not? Because he well 
knew there was no error of the kind in the passage animadverted 
on which he could produce.—And this I now, in return, defy 
him to do^^. 
So far it is true that I have attempted “ to explain that the same cause 
which produces the navicular disease in the foot of the horse, likewise pro¬ 
duces glanders in the head; and so has and does and so will every practical 
veterinarian; and so does Mr. Vines himself, and in words so nearly the 
same, that he appears almost to have borrowed them from me: See page 33 
of his Appendix. He was consulted with regard to some job horses, among 
which glanders had appeared ; and he says, “ On investigation, it very soon 
turned out that the horses had been living for a length of time in idleness, 
and with a plentiful allowance of new^ hay and oats, which of course, when 
under either work or play, are well known to render horses in a faint, re¬ 
laxed, or debilitated state ; and, of course, from the slightest exciting cause 
being applied, in consequence of their being then in a predisposed slate, 
they become liable not only to those, but likeivise to a variety of other dis¬ 
eases, which, if they had been subjected to a dirTerent mode of treatment, 
would never have occurred.’' 
Now, what will the reader think of this wilful perversion of meaning— 
this statement of that which is literally true, but in such a way as to pro¬ 
duce a totally opposite impression on the minds of others, and iviih the 
evident intention to do so P What is this but the worst species of falsehood! 
Does Mr\ Vines expect to be received, in future, among candid and honoura¬ 
ble writers; or will 4he slightest credence be henceforth given to any repre¬ 
sentation he may malic ! ! ! 
So I did, and so I ever shall, for the terms healthy and unhealthy disease 
are to me strange and unintelligihle connexions of terms:— the first is a con¬ 
tradiction ; the second mere tautology. 
I was not the reviewer of Mr. Vines’s Work on Glanders. 1 should 
