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inflammation of the lungs, general or local dropsy, and the 
latter, whether it occurs from general or local debility, conjointly 
with grease, or injuries of different parts of the body or not. 
“ When such changes as these take place, and the discharge 
and ulcerations become unhealthy , the disease with which the ani¬ 
mal was before afflicted is now altered from its original character ; 
and under these circumstances the animal is usually considered to 
have become glandered or farcied” 
“ Glanders and farcy not only follow such diseases as have first 
been mentioned, but also appear sometimes in unhealthy and de¬ 
bilitated animals, from over-exertion and other causes, and with¬ 
out being preceded by any of the former-named diseases of a com¬ 
mon inflammatory character ; and this is occasioned by the system 
being reduced to an unhealthy state , from the same causes as 
those which, in more healthy and vigorous animals, would be found 
to produce strangles, common colds, inflammation of the lungs, 
&c.” 
From what has already passed between us and our author, it 
will be seen, that we differ from him whenever he asserts that an 
unhealthy condition of system is absolutely necessary to the pro¬ 
duction of glanders ; at the same time, we admit that the disease 
often makes its appearance in such a state of system, and is the 
usual sequel of the diseases he has mentioned, whenever those 
diseases take an unhealthy turn . 
In order to reconcile these apparently contradictory facts, we 
must call into the question the Protean character of glanders and 
farcy, and consider them in their acute, sub-acute, and chronic or 
inactive forms. That they will invade the m; st healthy and vigo¬ 
rous subjects occasionally , is too notorious a truth to admit in our 
mind of any argument; but, for all that, we are ready to subscribe 
to what our author says about their attacking unhealthy systems ; 
and we can also bear him out when he states that “ debilitated 
animals'’ are likewise very disposed subjects, their debility arising 
“ from over-exertion or other causes.’’ The coach and posting 
establishments furnish instances enough of this ; which have, by 
those cf another school, been ascribed to a foul and contaminated 
atmosphere. But there is one case that will, at least as far as it 
goes, set the latter opinion on one side ; which is, that glanders 
and farcy have been seen to be the consecutive effects of pure 
over-exertion from the chase; at legist, we ourselves have wit¬ 
nessed such cases : and they most assuredly can be adduced, if 
any can, to prove that glanders and farcy may be produced by 
over-exertion , or its natural consequence, debility - 
We admire the manly and independent style which Mr. Vines 
occasionally assumes ; but we had some unpleasant feelings when 
