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is in fact a preparation of mercury) which not unfre- 

 quently happens with horses of delicate constitution, 

 the following purgative should be given : — Kochelle 

 salts seven ounces, sulphur two and a-quarter ounces, 

 mixed with liquorice powder and treacle, and formed 

 into a ball, to be repeated for two or three days. 

 If the limbs are much swollen the carbonate of potass 

 may be given every time the animal drinks. Warm 

 fomentations should be constantly applied to the limbs 

 with cloths, as hot as the animal can bear it, or flannel 

 bandages, put on and kept constantly wet with hot water, 

 as hot as a man can bear his hand in it. After all 

 treatment, even the most successful kind, I doubt if it 

 is entirely got out of the system, as all animals, having 

 once had farcy, are liable to a return of it at any time. 



NASAL GLEET. 



This is another disease that has sometimes been 

 mistaken for glanders, but it is quite distinct from it in 

 its affecting both nostrils, and also being a discharge of 

 clear pus. There is a constant discharge of a thickish 

 fluid from the nostrils, proceeding from the mucous 

 membrane which lines the nostrils in the internal 

 cavity. This disease is frequently brought on by the 

 effects ol a long-continued discharge from catarrh or 

 cold. It is unattended with any feverish symptoms ; 

 the flow of this thick mucous gleet is often very con- 

 siderable and variable in colour. When the horse is 

 living upon green food it often assumes a greenish hue, 

 and sometimes even a grass-green colour. If its diet is 

 of dry food, and it is kept in the stable, then it assumes 



