488 POISON DEVELOPED IN MEATS AND SAUSAGES. 
a healthy condition. I don’t think it had farcy. I never heard the 
word chancre used with reference to a horse. I have had a great deal 
of experience. I have had cases lately. 
Cross-examined—Mr. Kent is not connected with the coaching busi¬ 
ness. I attend ninety-seven coach-horses. I have attended more than 
four cases of farcy in the last twelvemonth. Generally, an abscess 
comes in the inner part of the leg and the side of the face in farcy 
cases. There is no other symptom. Farcy buds first appear, and then 
become ulcers. I call them pimples not buds. The disease increases 
more rapidly in some horses than others. The disease farcy is not a 
mild form of glanders. It is a different and distinct disease altogether. 
Mr. Slack —Then you differ from the hooks in this respect also. Mr. 
Slack read as follows from White’s treatise: “The most common 
cause of farcy appears to be * contagion either from a glandered or 
farcied horse for there can be no doubt that these diseases will reci¬ 
procally produce each other; whence we may conclude that they both 
originate from the same poison, which produces different effects accord¬ 
ing to the parts on which its noxious influence is felt.’’ 
His Honour summed up, observing that the defendant virtually gave 
a warranty, however much he might contend that he intended it merely 
as a receipt; and having commented on the fact that Mr. Kent and Mr. 
Leigh only saw a part of the lungs, and the head after the skin had been 
removed, whereas Mr. Broad had seen the horse several times during life, 
gave judgment for the plaintiff for the full amount, £25. 
The case lasted six hours. 
ON THE POISON WHICH IS DEVELOPED IN MEATS AND 
SAUSAGES. 
CRITICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON THE VARIOUS HYPOTHESES RELATIVE TO 
THE NATURE OF THIS POISONOUS PRINCIPLE, WITH THE ANNOUNCE¬ 
MENT OF A NEW THEORY OF ITS TRUE ESSENCE. 
By M. E. Van den Corpcjt. 
[We are induced to give insertion to the following paper, 
which appeared some little time since in The Chemist , from 
having in our number for March last stated that organic 
matters undergoing change, and which too often find their 
way into the food given to pigs, frequently prove poisonous.] 
If it is indisputable that the immense progress made in 
the last few years by the sciences of investigation, have elu¬ 
cidated many facts previously unexplained, it is no less true 
that several points still seem to elude all rational expla¬ 
nation. 
Of this number is the unknown poison which, especially 
in certain circumstances, has given rise to many symptoms 
which have been set up after the swallowing of smoked 
sausages or meats, concerning which the utter want of posi¬ 
tive knowledge admits only of our forming suppositions. 
