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rate exercise. Blood-letting, and other active depletive 

 measures, cannot be too strongly condemned in the treat- 

 ment of this disease. 



FARCY AND GLANDEKS. 



Under certain circumstances a specific disease is developed 

 in the horse, characterized by the formation of a virulent 

 animal poison, which is very destructive when introduced 

 into the system of man and various warm-blooded animals. 

 This specific disease is termed farcy when the local mani- 

 festations affect the skin; whereas, in a more severe form, the 

 lungs are implicated, and the system is so generally impreg- 

 nated with the poison as to destroy life with certainty, sooner 

 or later it is then called glanders. The terms farcy and 

 glanders are meaningless and inappropriate. The first is an 

 importation from the French by Sir William Hope, who 

 translated Solleysell's work on the horse, and reproduced 

 in the English version of this work the French word farcin. 

 The second is derived from the word glans, gland, and has 

 been applied to the disease from the enlargement of the sub- 

 maxillary lymphatic glands met with in every case of this 

 disease. 



Farcy and glanders are diseases of temperate climates. 

 They are unknown in very hot countries, and rare in very 

 cold ones. They are capable of spontaneous origin in the 

 horse, and especially is this the case with farcy; but the com- 

 mon cause of both affections is contagion. It is extremely 

 rare to see a case of farcy or glanders that we cannot trace 

 to communication from the diseased to the healthy; but in 

 very foul stables, in badly ventilated mines, in the holds of 

 ships on long and rough sea voyages, glanders may break 

 out with great virulence. The two diseases are rife in times 



