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stance must discard all idea that the violent poison of acute 
glanders and farcy exists in this affection. 
I will now consider the question of contagion which un¬ 
doubtedly highly characterizes glanders and farcy. The main 
objections I find against the supposed contagion are : ist, the 
fact that many animals are attacked in a very short time on 
the same premises, and at different places of the same county. 
2d, the outbreak of the disease over the whole body in a 
violent manner (which is only possible in the acute glanders), 
seems opposed to the idea that the multiplication of the ba¬ 
cillus requires time and slow progress, as is the case in 
chronic farcy (which disease is not indicated by the existing 
symptoms). 3d, That no evidence is known of the existence 
of a real, living poison. 4th, That the cessation of the disease 
at every place after the affected animals were destroyed, and 
when no measures of disinfection were taken, proves that the 
disease was located in the individual organism. 5th, That no 
reliable evidence of direct contagion has been reported, but 
rather the proofs of non-contagion. 6th, The fact that, in the 
majority of cases, this disease is spontaneously developed 
without any known cause, while the glanders are considered 
to be the product of contagion. 
If this disease is not the glanders, what then is its real 
nature ? It is very easy to ask this question, but rather diffi¬ 
cult to give it a decisive answer. I acknowledge that on ex¬ 
amination of the first few cases, I was impressed by the great 
similiarity of symptoms between this affection and the acute 
glanders and farcy, but careful examination and repeated ob¬ 
servations before and after death created in my mind a doubt 
as to the real character, which doubt I cannot expel until I 
am convinced of an adverse opinion by several evident proofs 
of contagion, and the existence of a glandered bacillus. The 
idea of chronic farcy and glanders must be rejected, unless 
we admit the theory that the peculiar climate of California is 
not adapted to favor the process of induration in the glands 
and other tissues, or to effect metastatic deposits in the inter¬ 
nal organs. This idea, it appears to me, is, however, not ad¬ 
missible, because it is sufficiently demonstrated that tubercu- 
