74 THE NEW POCKET FARRIER. 



enquiring of his master or keeper, what usage he has 

 lately had which might occasion the illness. Rowels 

 are absolutely necessary in some cases, but are absolutely 

 unnecessary in others, and serve only to disfigure and 

 torment a horse. 



The rowel in the navel for grease is very wrong; 

 because rowels in a horse that is greased, promote too 

 great a discharge from the blood and animal spirits, 

 which weakens him to a degree of irrecoverable poverty. 

 I have put five rowels in a horse at one time, thinking 

 (by them) to let the grease run off; but the more the 

 rowels ran, the more he ran at the heels, till the texture 

 of his blood was so broken, that I could not recover him. 

 This convinced me it was the wrong way to cure the 

 grease. I have heard it said amongst learned physicians, 

 that too many setons or issues will draw a man into a 

 consumption. In my opinion, rowels will do the same 

 thing by a horse, as they are of like nature and effect. 



GLANDERS AND FARCY. 



The glanders is the opprobrium medicorum, for 

 hitherto no attempts have succeeded in the cure of more 

 than a few cases. By some peculiar anomaly in the 

 constitution of the horse, although conclusive proofs are 

 not wanting that this and farcy are modifications of one 

 disease, and can each generate the other ; yet the one 

 is incurable, while the other is cured every day. 



The marks of glanders are a discharge of purulent 

 matter from ulcers situated in one or both nostrils, more 

 often from the left than the right. This discharge soon 

 becomes glairy, thick and white-of-egg-like: it afterwards 

 shows bloody streaks, and is foetid. The glands of the 

 jaw of the affected side, called the kernels, swell from 



