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some refrigerant lotion, upon them, which may easily be managed 

 by attaching it above to the throat-latch of the halter, below to the 

 nose-band. 



Cool and pure Air has appeared to have, in some instances, 

 a restorative or curative influence on glandered horses. Persons 

 unwilling to have their horses destroyed from the circumstance of 

 their general health and condition being evidently so good, have 

 come to the determination to turn them to pasture by themselves, 

 there to " take their chance ;" and on occasions the results have 

 proved favourable. Mr. Youatt gives an account of some cases 

 so left to Nature, in which, he says, he was " half-deceived, and 

 willingly so." The opportunity, however, was given of subse- 

 quently tracing most of them, and the following proved the result: — 

 " The predisposition to the disease remained ; possibly, the very 

 disease itself in an insidious form. In less than six months the 

 discharge again appeared ; the glands enlarged, and became once 

 more adherent; chancres soon followed; glanders became fully re- 

 established, and in a worse form than before ; the malady speedily 

 ran its course, and they (the patients) died*." 



llierapeiitic Treatment of Farcy. 



While glanders has in all ages been regarded as an incurable 

 disease, or as one from which the horse recovered — whenever he 

 did happen to do so — more through the agency of the x>is medica- 

 trix natures than from any medical treatment he might have 

 received, farcy, on the contrary, has been viewed, in certain of its 

 forms and stages, as a disease susceptible of cure. It may at first 

 appear strange that two such opposite opinions should be enter- 

 tained concerning the curability of two diseases admitted in nature 

 to be identical : when we come, however, to reflect that one has 

 dernfioid tissue for its seat, the other mucous, and that to the 

 locality of the one we have free access, while the other remains 

 concealed from our view, and for the most part is out of the 

 reach of surgical means, any surprise we may have felt will, 

 probably, in a great measure cease. In any case of ordinary dis- 

 ease, every medical man is well aware how much easier it is to 



* Mr. Youatl'.s Lectures. 



