150 Glanders. 



Farcy or Glanders, during the time he is exposed to the grand ex- 

 citing cause of the disease, or that it may not hurry on an attack, 

 when the poison has been generated in the blood, (having expressly 

 asserted that all debilitating powers must have this effect) yet, that 

 poor diet alone, will never prove adequate to the production of these 

 diseases will, I think, admit of very satisfactory proof. 



For, if we take into account the innumerable instances of 

 Horses, that are turned out of these Ai^rm comfortable stables into 

 straw yards, (where ihey get no oats and but little hay, through the 

 entire of severe winters and springs, as is the common practice in 

 most parts of England,) in order that they may recover from sprains, 

 and lamenesses of various kinds, we shall surely feel convinced, that 

 food defici *t in nutriment, can have but little share (whilst the ani- 

 mal remains exposed to the elements) in bringing on an attack 

 of Farcy or Glanders ; unless in those instances where some 

 symptoms of these disorders had manifested themselves, before they 

 were placed in their new condition. On the contrary, I believe 

 that hundreds and thousands of slight, or incipient cases of Farcy, 

 have been cured by this plan of treatment ; which is, however, too 

 indiscriminately, and sometimes most absurdly, had recourse to, 

 both as a cheap remedy and a dernier resort, in many of those 

 crabbed, chronic cases, which the doctors have in vain^'exercised their 

 skill upon, in the stable. Let it not, however, be supposed from 

 these remarks, that I am an advocate for the plan of half-starving 

 Horses affected with Farcy or Glanders. 



For, even in the inflammatory Farcy of the limbs, after the vio- 

 lence of the symptoms has given way to the antiphlogistic treatment 

 which has been recommended, it may be observed, that I have 



