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opinions that are advanced by me in regard to this disease, 

 especially if he be a reader of the books on the diseases of 

 horses. In these books we are distinctly told that farcy is 

 a variety of glanders, and that farcy buds are of the same 

 nature as the ulcers of the lining membrane of the nose in 

 cases of glanders. This may or may not be true. But 

 why not have given the reasons why these relations were 

 so sustained to each other ? Thus assertion is put for fact, 

 and ignorance for great knowledge. Farcy is not a disease 

 attacking the absorbent vessels, nor glanders of the lining 

 membranes of the nose. Farcy, we are again told, is cura- 

 ble, and in the very next sentence that glanders is incura- 

 ble. Why this peculiarity? For if the diseases be the 

 same, they should be equally susceptible of cure. From all 

 that has been said and written on the subject of farcy and 

 glanders, nothing satisfactory has been gained, but much 

 that is calculated to perplex. Farcy is the " scrofula '^ of 

 the horse. It is unknown in countries and climes where 

 this disease in man is never seen, and a disease inseparable 

 irom the present manner of domestication. In a word, the 

 disease called farcy is nothing more nor less than the effects 

 of a class of pathogens called ferments, leavens, or zumins, 

 acting and producing fermentation in the blood. (See 

 Glanders.) In medicines zumins are used, such as yeast, 

 rennet, pepsin, and cow-pox matter. Among the various 

 diseases of the horse produced by ferments, are glanders, 

 farcy, purpura, grease, and several eruptions of the skin 

 and legs. This is readily explained. For instance, if the 

 liver, kidneys, skin, and bowels of a horse be not acting 

 right, how is effete matter to be eliminated or carried from 

 the blood or the body of the animal ? This effete matter, 

 as a small piece of membrane, dead bone or pus^ not escape 

 ing by the usual chsiuaels, wiJi diecay aiid become ao ^ctiv^ 



