DISEASES, DEFECTS, ETC. 89 



will often be afflicted with Glanders, while the matter of 

 Grlanders will frequently produce Farcy. They are dif- 

 ferent types or stages of the same disease. There is, how- 

 ever, a very material difference in their symptoms and 

 progress; and this most important of all, that while 

 Glanders are generally incurable, Farcy, in its early stage 

 and mild form, may be successfully treated ( 17) . 



Water Farcy, confounded by name with the common "Water Farcy. 

 Farcy, is a dropsical (r) affection of the skin, either of the 

 chest or of the limbs generally [q), and is also an Unsound- 

 ness. 



Inflammation of the Foot, or Acute Founder, is generally Founder, 

 caused by suffering a Horse to stand in the cold or wet 

 after being hard ridden or driven, and is called " Fever in 

 the feet." This fever is not easily subdued ; and, if it be 

 subdued, it sometimes leaves after it some fearful conse- 

 quences. The loss of the hoof is not an unfrequent 

 one (.s). A Horse, therefore, which either has " Fever in 

 the feet," or has been at all injured by it, is Unsound. 



For Gibbing, see Backing and Gibbing it). Gibbing. 



The most formidable of all the diseases to which the Glanders. 

 Horse is subject is Glanders. It is described by writers 

 fifteen hundred years ago ; and it was then, and is now, 

 not only a loathsome, but an incurable, disease. The 

 most early and unquestionable symptom of Glanders, is an 

 increased discharge from one or both nostrils ; different 

 from the discharge of Catarrh, because it is usually lighter 

 and clearer in its colour, and more glutinous or sticky. 

 It is not discharged occasionally and in large quantities 

 like the mucus of Catarrh, but it is constantly running from 

 the nostril (») . It need hardly be said that a Glandered 

 Horse has on him the worst sort of Unsoundness. 



It is a disease not only infectious to beasts (r), but also Infectious to 

 to man. Thus, in the spring of 1853 a whole family in iQ^i^^^ii*!- 

 Sligo died of Glanders. The father first caught it from a 

 Horse bought at a fair in Mayo, and then his wife and 

 four children took it and all died in great agony. There- 



{q) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," bins, 10 Gush. (Mass.) 520), it was 



128, 131. held that the moment symptoms of 



(>•) Dropsy, ante, p. 87. glanders appear in a Horse he is 



[s] Lib. U. K. "The Horse," unsound; and that whether or not 



290. the symptoms are in fact the seeds 



{t) Backing and Gibbing, ante, of the disease is to be proved by 



p. 75. the future history of the horse. 



[u) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," (v) ^eeBaird^r. Graham, UOourt 



12i ; and see Farcy, ante. In an of Sess. 615 (Sco.). 

 American case {Woodbury v. Rob- 



