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upon the seller if the disease appeared within eighteen days after 
purchase. 
Another medical and legal point in glanders and farcy was the 
duration of the disease. He differed from some veterinary surgeons. 
He had seen more than one certificate saying, “ This horse is suffering 
from glanders of long standing.” Now, there were very few cases in 
which a man had a right to say this, unless the symptoms were very 
extraordinary. In his experience he had, over and over again, seen such 
a group and combination of symptoms suggestive of disease of long 
standing , but which, in reality, had only existed two or three days, and 
he thought there was nothing more difficult than to say a horse was 
suffering from disease of three, two, or even one month’s standing. 
He did not believe any man could say a horse had been glandered for 
one month. 
As to the cause of glanders, he believed there was only one, viz. con¬ 
tagion. He would at once negative such a suggestion as the eating of 
maize, as his father used it very largely with beans, and his horses never 
suffered. He did not like the drinking-troughs accused of being such 
spreaders of the disease; and now there were very few glandered horses 
to be found about London streets. 
Mr. Samson considered the spread of glanders more due to horse 
repositories than drinking-troughs. 
Mr. Steel differed from Mr. Hunting as to the inability of veterinary 
surgeons to fix the length of duration of disease from appearances of 
animals. He thought, under certain conditions, and when they pre¬ 
sented peculiar symptoms, it was possible for them to fix the time to at 
least one month, by careful examination of certain lesions in the mucous 
membrane and skin, and when they found a cicatrix in the Schneiderian 
membrane also. He was sanguine enough to hope a cure would yet be 
found for glanders, and alluded to the fact that Dr. Granville, in working 
out the pathology of glanders, thought he had made important discoveries 
of bacterial elements different from those found in anthrax. The subject 
had been largely discussed on the Continent, but still remained to be 
proved. He (Mr. Steel) thought it possible there might be a state 
of the blood in which the poison of the disease was diffused through the 
system, and yet left no local lesions indicative of its presence. 
Mr. Shaw said he knew a case of a horse working in Russell Square 
the night previous with twenty farcy buds on him. The man said, “ It 
only broke out in the night.” He quite agreed with the Chairman that 
the disease could exist in the system for months. In giving an opinion, 
they should always notice the purple colour of the membrane. He had 
noticed an invariable sign of lung disease was, an animal affected would 
grunt if one went to strike him. 
Mr. Steel said, respecting Mr. Gerrard’s question about the purple 
colour of the mucous membrane as confirmatory of the animal being 
affected, and as a reason for its isolation, where there is an outbreak of 
the disease, and no lesion can be detected as described of glanders, the 
ulcers probably arising from other causes, the history of the case must 
be studied with all the particular bearings of the disease, or supposed 
disease, with which they had to deal. 
Mr. Samson noticed affected horses presented a bluish-purple appear¬ 
ance of the Schneiderian membranes, and frequently a loss of flesh about 
the hind quarters. 
Mr. Hunting , in referring to the duration of the disease, said other 
diseases than glanders might produce a cicatrix, as mentioned by Mr. 
Steel; it might follow Schneiderian ulcers in the nostril after influenza. A 
