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MODERN VETEKl-NAiii i'liACTICE. 



[faboy. 



Give every morning. Or, 



Blue Pill 2 tlraclims. 



Aloes 1 do. 



Ginger 1 do. 



^lix together for one ball, witli .-i liltlo oil of 

 turpentine, and give one every seeond morning. 

 Great oaro must bo taken to watch the hor.se 

 that he does not become salivated. If cither 

 of the foregoing prescriptions should appear 

 to take his appetite away, let him remain for a 

 day or two, without giving him any of them. 

 AVhilst administering these medicines, the 

 horse should be well kept, and fed without 

 stint. Au ounce of nitre may occasionally be 

 dissolved in his morning water, as he will then 

 be most likely to drink. A little green meat 

 will bo good for him ; and when he is getting 

 better, give him a run at grass in some place 

 handy, and a feed of corn morning and evening. 

 Speared malt is excellent at this time ; also, 

 about a teacupful of linseed poured into a 

 quart of boiling water ; mixing with it, eight 

 or nine good potatoes, well boiled and worked 

 up together. This may be given with his 

 corn at his mid-day feed. He may, at first, 

 refuse to take it ; but this dislike will, by a 

 little perseverance, soon be overcome, when the 

 benefit that will arise from it will be, at once, 

 apparent. Carrots are very good, chopped up 

 fine; also turnips of the Swedish kind, as 

 they contain more saccharine matter than any 

 other ; also parsnips ; but of these, a few only 

 should be given at a time ; for, if given in 

 quantities, they are apt to cause gripes. The 

 treatment, as practised at the Eoyal Veterinary 

 College, is by administering from two to five 

 drachms of sulphate of copper, in solution, in 

 about a pint of water ; increasing or decreasing 

 the dose, as circumstances may require ; and 

 also applying to the sores daily a solution of 

 the same sulphate, in the quantity of two 

 ounces to a pint of water. In the recent 

 edition of White's Compendium of the Veteri- 

 nary Art, edited by Mr. Spooner, that gentle- 

 man says, that the treatment of farcy " must 

 be very similar in its nature to that recom- 

 mended for glanders, but with a much greater 

 probability of success. The system must be 

 supported by a generous, though not too 

 stimulating, diet, and the vegetable and mineral 

 tonics administered aa in glanders; but, if 



the sulphate of copper bo employed, two or 

 tliree drachms will bo a Hunii-iently htrong 

 dose. Carrot.s or green food will bo a useful 

 addition to tlio diet. Tlu; hiids Bhould bu 

 opened witli a lancft, and, wlnii Ihc mutter in 

 evacuated, a caustic should be a|»plied to tho 

 ulcers. The lunar caustic will form a useful 

 application; but other caustics may bo em- 

 ployed. An ointment composed of two drachma 

 of hydriodate of potash; lard, or palm-oil, 

 two ounces ; mercurial ointment, two ounces, 

 should be rubbed daily in tho course of tho 

 enlarged lymphatics. The horse should bo 

 exercised daily, and properly groomed; and 

 the above treatment continued until all symp- 

 toms of farcy entirely disappear." la tho 

 Materia Medica there is a better form of this 

 ointment, in which the mercury and the iodine 

 are chemically combined. 



The same gentleman observes that the most 

 favourable symptoms presented by this disease 

 are often delusive ; for even when it appears to 

 have succumbed to the skill of the practitioner, 

 it breaks out again and again, and sometimes, 

 when the morbid poison has thoroughly pene- 

 trated the system, after many months, it will 

 make its appearance in the form of fatal farcy 

 or glanders, 



Mr. Blaine tells us of a horse so dreadfully 

 afflicted with farcy that it was unable to stand, 

 when it was drawn into a field of tares, and 

 left there to take his chance. When the poor 

 brute had devoured all that was within his 

 reach, hunger forced him to search for more ; 

 and managing to crawl along, and eat as he 

 went, he eventually recovered. 



The dinioclide of copper has been introduced 

 by Professor ]\Iorton, and beneficially used in 

 farcy, as well as in such other diseases, as 

 have a resemblance to glanders. It is usually 

 combined with the root of gentian, to which 

 small quantities of cantharides may be added 

 with advantage. When an increased soreness 

 of the diseased parts appear, its application 

 should cease for a time, although this is an 

 indication of the absorbent vessels being stimu- 

 lated into increased action. 



Water farcy is entirely different from the 

 common farcy, of which we have here been 

 treating, and is spoken of in another part of 

 this work. 



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