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In such cases as this description applies to, we are very ready 
to admit that the system is in an unhealthy state . But we must 
not pass unheeded the numerous cases that have come under our 
observation, where the animals have done all that horses in 
health,in their situation, would have done; and where they have 
done so for years, to the benefit of their masters, and the mystifi¬ 
cation of the veterinary pathologist. We have known men who 
have kept teams of glandered horses on their farms; and 
though, on occasions, one w ould “ get bad*’ and die; yet, 
generally taken, would they do their w r ork and support their 
condition, in spite of the nasal affection, as though they had no 
such malady. We cannot doubt but what Mr. Vines must have 
seen such cases himself; but possibly our opportunities may have 
been somewhat greater than such as the Veterinary College 
affords him. And this it is that leads us to give our opinion so con¬ 
fidently, that glanders cannot be said, in all its states and stages, 
essentially to depend upon an unhealthy condition of system. 
“ A cough is sometimes a symptom both of glanders and farcy, 
and occasionally it indicates disease of the lungs, a state in which 
they are in some instances found after death ; but there are cases, 
both of glanders and farcy, where no disorganization or altera¬ 
tion of those parts, or any disease of the lungs, is to be found ; 
when the only unnatural appearances to be observed are, that 
these parts, together with all others of the body, are much 
whiter in colour, and weaker in texture, than is usually found to 
be the case in those animals which are destroyed when in a per¬ 
fect state of health.” 
Most certainly the lungs are not invariably or necessarily 
diseased in glanders; and therefore glanders cannot be said 
either to originate or have its primary seat in those organs: w e 
have always reasoned in this manner on the point ourselves ; and 
we are gratified to find that (although Mr. Sewell, we believe, 
is against us) Mr. Vines, as well as Mr. Coleman, are of our w ay 
of thinking. And this is an important fact; because it enables 
us to account, in some measure, for the uninterrupted constitu¬ 
tional health and strength many glandered horses enjoy, through 
which they are often able to continue at work for a very consi¬ 
derable length of time. 
Both glanders and farcy are very often the sequelae of other 
diseases ; and this happens, we believe, in the way in which 
Mr. Vines has represented to us it does, viz. in consequence of 
the unhealthy turn the primary disease takes, either of itself or 
induced by injudicious treatment. “ The inflammatory diseases 
which glanders and farcy most frequently follow, are those 
termed strangles, common colds, distemper, acute and sub-acute 
