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our remedy for glanders. The opportunity was improved. 

 The writer gave the gentleman the whole plan of treatment, 

 and received from him the promise that it should be faith- 

 fully carried out. With this, he parted from Esquire Joseph 

 Edmonston, and went on his way. 



About a year later, business called us into that neighbor- 

 hood again. Learning from the citizens the remarkable suc- 

 cess which had followed the prescribed treatment, the author 

 was drawn, by interest and sympathy, to the residence of 

 Esquire Edmonston, and there learned from his own lips the 

 truth of the statements already made. He informed us that, 

 when he had used the remedy twice, the infection ceased. 

 He had cured ten cases, and prevented the remainder of his 

 stock from taking the disease. His stables had not been 

 given over to the flames, not one of his horses had been 

 killed, and he believed that the treatment, if pursued with 

 energy, and accompanied with due attention to the surround- 

 ings and general condition of the patient, would effect a cure 

 in the large majority of cases. By an outlay of not more 

 than twenty-five dollars, he had saved stock valued at nearly 

 ^Ye thousand. 



FARCY. 



Like its accompaniment, glanders, this disease is much 

 more common on the old continent than it is on ours. Com- 

 paratively few American farmers have ever seen the farcy of 

 the English and French stables. Opportunities to observe it, 

 therefore, have not been very frequent in the United States, 

 and our veterinarians are less familiar with it than their co- 

 adjutors across the ocean. Yet it is not an entire stranger 

 in this country. Occasionally it makes its appearance in 

 certain localities, and is generally, if not always, the closing 

 chapter in the history of a case of glanders. 



In our opinion, farcy is to be regarded as a general gland- 

 ered condition of the horse. The poisonous virus of glanders 

 is diffused by the blood through his entire system, and finally 

 breaks out upon the surface of the skin in putrid ulcers, 



