OF FARRIERY. 



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sideration as a symptomatic attendant upon 

 any other. And when that is really the case, 

 by effectually removing the cause ; in other 

 words, cure the disease on which it is an at- 

 tendant ; and then, of course, you will get rid 

 of its concomitant likewise. 



In respect to a cure, very little instructions 

 will be necessary ; for under judicious manage- 

 ment, it IS scarcely entitled to the appellation 

 of disease being in fact no more than a tem- 

 porary niconvenience. Therefore, any way will 

 do to effect some little change in the circulation 

 of the blood ; as for instance, take away about 

 two quarts of blood, and in three or four hours 

 after give a mash of malt, oats, and bran, equal 

 parts, continuing every night for a fortnight, 

 stirring in it one of the following powders, 



Take Flour of brimstone - 12 oz. 

 Antimony - - - 1 lb. 



Let these be well rubbed together, and divide 

 into twelve parts. Give his other feeds, 

 morning and noon, equal parts of oats and bran 

 moistened with water : if the continuance of 

 the bran should relax his body more than you 

 approve of, put into his feed a handful of 

 split beans, and the same quantity of chaff. 

 This method of treatment you will find suc- 

 cessful ; but yiu must accompany it with 

 regular and substantial dressing, air, exercise, 

 sound good oats, the best sweet hay, and good 

 soft water. When by these means, he begins 

 Visibly to improve in his hide, coat, and con- 

 dition, let him have twice in the week a 

 l)rushing gallop, to produce a tolerable sweat, 

 and enliven the circulation, taking great care 

 to let him stand still until he is perfectly cold ; 

 when his dressings should be thoroughly gone 

 tftrough with attentio"!, and care, and per- 

 ueyerance, every night and morning. If this 



method should be unattended with success, 

 there must be some unknown cause uikiu^- in 

 the system, in which case, 



Take Blue pill - - 2 drams 

 Aloes, Cape - 4 do. 



Give this at night, and keep all food from tlie 

 Horse during the ni»ht ; in the morning treat 

 as in administering a dose of physic; in the 

 course of four or five days repeat the medicine, 

 and, if a third dose should be required, which 

 you will be able to ascertain from his appear- 

 ance, let him have it, taking care the Horse 

 doesjiot get chilled during the action of the 

 mercury 



FARCY. 



It is one of those diseases to which the 

 Horse is liable, and for the cure of which, 

 and its co-disease, glanders, the Veterinary 

 Profession have been more puzzled with than 

 all the diseases to which the Horse is liable. 

 Until of modern date, farcy was not thoroughly 

 known; for all the old writers said it was 

 somethino; the matter w^ith the blood, but could 

 not tell what ; the French writers studied 

 the disease, and its nature, but still we got 

 very little farther on in progressive know- 

 ledge ; however, we are not enabled at the 

 present day always to promote a cure, though 

 it is satisfactory to be able to define the disease 

 in a much more enlightened form. 



Farcy, then, may be defined to be an inflam- 

 mation and suppuration, attendant with ulcera- 

 tion of the absorbents of the skin. It was 

 formerly thought to be a disease of the veins, 

 from its frequently appearing on the inside vA 

 the thigh, where they are conspicuous and 

 prominent, but the disease does not lay in ine 

 veins. The disea.se beinjj exterior to tne 



