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apply here; it being- understood, as a general rule, that it is 

 seldom expedient to prescribe any one of them — most of them 

 being of a tonic nature — before the inflammatory action has been 

 pretty well subdued in the farcinous parts through antiphlogistic 

 agents ; and that, in prescribing them, we should take care that 

 the doses are not such, either in quantity or through repetition, as 

 may tend to injure the general health of the animal, it being an 

 object rather to support than depress. With these general ob- 

 servations 1 shall leave the selection of the remedy, and the dose, 

 and the manner in which it is to be given, to the discretion 

 of the practitioner, prepared as he is to undertake this part of 

 the treatment by the directions already given in the case of 

 glanders. 



HURTREL D'Arboval, after informing us that at the French 

 veterinary schools preparations of sulphur and antimony, in com- 

 bination with bitters and tonics, are considered the most effica- 

 cious remedies in farcy, makes the very suitable comment on such 

 reports, that we no more possess any specific treatment for farcy 

 than we do for any other disease ; adding, to confine our prescrip- 

 tions to the scLjne therapeutic agents, is not the way to increase our 

 knowledge of the best mode of treating farcy. On the contrary, 

 says this writer, the treatment ought to be varied, not less on 

 account of the stage of the disease than in respect to the cause 

 that has given rise to it, to the idiosyncrasy of the patient, his 

 age, condition, &c. The same authority sagaciously enters his 

 protest against the employment of internal remedies of a kind or 

 in a dose likely to prove irritating to the mucous lining of the 

 alimentary passages. 



LOCAL TREATMENT in farcy, is of as much or, perhaps, 

 of more consideration than constitutional means. In glanders, as 

 was observed on a former occasion, we are, in respect to the 

 extent and nature of the local disease, as it were, working in the 

 dark : we know neither the precise condition nor the exact situ- 

 ation of the ulcerations, and, consequently, run a risk of using 

 some improper dressings, or applying them to some improper 

 places; whereas, in farcy, all the local disease occurring under 

 our cognizance, we prescribe topical remedies suited to the in- 



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