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of farcy being so cured. The general opinion, both of English 

 and French veterinarians, is, that glanders is incurable, and that 

 farcy is curable. According to my experience, there is seldom 

 any difficulty in curing farcy, when it is a local disorder, merely 

 by local ap]jlications ; but such cures are generally followed by 

 glanders, there being often a considerable interval (from a few 

 weeks to a few months) between the disappearance of farcy and 

 the appearance of glanders. Before any attempt is made to cure 

 a glandered horse, with a view to publishing the case if it prove 

 successful, it would be right to make it appear satisfactorily 

 that the horse is really glandered. This rule has been seldom 

 attended to ; for, in general, when such cures have been pub- 

 lished, or talked of, it has been merely asserted that the horse 

 had the glanders. Now, it is well known that there are diseases 

 which resemble glanders, and that the most experienced prac- 

 titioners are sometimes un;ible to give a decisive opinion upon 

 such cases. A blow on the nose, for example, may injure the 

 bones, and cause a running from one nostril, and a swelling of 

 the kernels under the jaw, for years, which will exactly resemble 

 glanders, except in not being contagious, or fatal in its termi- 

 nation. The cure of glanders, however, cannot be accomplished 

 without great care, and considerable expense ; and rarely, I 

 believe, except in its first stage, or mild form. The expense of 

 the cure does not depend so much on the value of the medicine 

 employed, as the length of time that is necessary ; therefore, 

 unless the horse is of considerable value, in good condition, and 

 glandered only in a mild degree, it is not worth while to attempt 

 the cure. It should also be recollected, during the treatment, 

 that as long as there is any discharge from the nostril, there is 

 danger of his communicating the disease to other horses. Cor- 

 rosive sublimate and calomel have been found to have con- 

 siderable power in correcting the glanderous poison ; but they 

 weaken the animal so much, that most frequently they accelerate 

 the progress of the disease. I now recommend the mildest 

 preparations of mercury, such as Ethiop's mineral, or quick- 

 silver rubbed down with chalk, or honey and liquorice powder. 

 In the last case of mild glanders I was consulted about, I ad- 

 vised small doses of Ethiop's mineral to be given daily for some 

 time, and a seton to be passed through the swelling under the 

 jaw. The seton, however, was omitted, but the Ethiop's mineral 

 effected a perfect cure. Dr. Malouin, a French physician of 

 the last century, first employed Ethiop's mineral as a remedy 

 for glanders, and, it was said, with considerable success. Since 

 that time, however, this preparation seems to have lost its 

 reputation, not only as a remedy for glanders,^ but for every 

 other disorder. I have found it, on many occasions, a valuable 

 alterative, especially when mixed with an equal quantity of 



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