1 lij CAUTERIZING. ANTICOR— CAUSE, SYMPTOMS, CURE 



turnips, carrots, &c. to the horse under a course of mercury. They war with 

 its operation, and cause that very commotion in tlie bowels we should most 

 sedulously avoid. 



In recommending the free application of the actual cautery to the farcy 

 buds, in the last page, I do but follow the common practice, being altogether 

 the safest means in ordinary hands, who apply fire in many other cases, with 

 much less reason than is done in that of farcy. Butter of antimony, or sul- 

 phate of copper, effects the same end, and has the recommendation of being 

 used exclusively by the French veterinarians. What La Fosse says on this 

 point is emphatic, and shows his opinion of the predisposing cause of farcy: 

 "Do not apply fire in any manner to lum[)s produced by farcy, under an idea 

 of stopping the disorder. The disease being in the blood, treat it accordingly, 

 and as for the lumps, cut them off: apply blue stone, dissolved in water." 

 When he forefends the " idea of stopping the disorder," doubtless in saying 

 this he only allows that to be the true farcy, which I have considered as the 

 third stage, or confirmed kind. But the earlier or milder stages, which would 

 ultimately end in the third or most virulent kind, if not stopped, being occa- 

 sioned by the cessation of the lymphatic function — when the attendant glands 

 refuse to communicate with the system (the blood,) can not have yet carried 

 the consequence of that stoppage into the blood, in making this remark, I 

 have not overlooked what was said of the practice in Morocco at a preceding 

 page, 135, note. 



ANTICOR 



Is more prevalent in France than in this country, and is so named from its 

 position, anti against, and cor the heart. The French words ante-ccevr have 

 the same meaning, and are derived from the same origin. It consists in an 

 inflamed swelling of the breast near the heart, and the name is extended to 

 any other swelling from this part back under the belly, even unto the sheath, 

 which also swells: in this event anticor is decidedly dropsical. 



Cause. — Full feeding without suflScient exercise, similarly to this whole 

 train of disorders which I have been just above considering. Hard riding or 

 driving, and subsequent exposure to the elements, or giving cold water to ani 

 mals that aie very fleshy in the forehand, as is the case with the greater part 

 of French horses; these, combined with a vitiated state of the blood, which is 

 then sizy, produce those extended swellings that partake somewhat of the na- 

 ture of swelled limb in grease, and yet terminate in abscess when the case is a 

 bad one. 



Symptoms. — An enlargement of the breast, which sometimes extends up 

 wards to the throat, and threatens suffocation. The animal appears stiff al)out 

 the neck, looks dull and drooping, refuses his food, and trembles or shivers 

 with the inflammation, whic*! may be felt. Pulse dull and uneven. By y)ress- 

 ing two or more fingers alternately, the existence of matter, or a disposition 

 to suppurate, may be ascertained (as in poll-evil) by its receding from side to 

 side as the pressure is withdrawn. On the other hand, if the disease owes iti 

 origin to dropsy, each pressure of the finger will remain pitted a few secondis 

 after the finger is withdrawn. Consult " Poll-evil" in its two stages. 



Cure. — As in other cases of tumour, that do not partake of critical abscess 

 after fever, &c., this disorder admits of being repressed, readily, by the means* 

 before prescribed, or of being otherwise cured, as it may be allied to some disor- 

 aer of the constitution. To repress the swelling, bleed the |)atient copiously; 

 give purgatives and clvster him; give bran mashes, and let the chill be taken 

 off his water. Foment the throat and breast with bran mash or marshmallows. 

 ftvery four or five hours ; and when these have reduced the sym}>tGin>, give aw 



