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either suppurate and burst, or become indolent and remain under 

 the name of sitfasts. In the early state, bathe tliem with cham- 

 ber-ley or vinegar : If they proceed to suppuration, refrain, and 

 when they neither go back or come forward, put on a pitch 

 plaster, and if this do not promote suppuration, let the sitfast be 

 dissected out. 



69. Warts are common to old horses, and had better be put up 

 with unless they be situated in some very inconvenient or con- 

 spicuous part. In this case tie a thread tightly around the root, 

 and the wart will drop off, or it may be cut off. Blaine recom- 

 mends the following, when warts are too numerous to be so 

 removed: crude sal ammoniac, two drachms; powdered savin, one 

 ounce ; lard, an ounce and a half. 



70. Hide hound is a state of the shin, where the interstitial matter 

 between that and the fleshy pannicle is not in a state to allow of 

 its pliancy and elasticity. The binding down of the hide thus 

 closely, acts on the hair, which it protrudes in a contrary direction 

 to its naturally inclined position ; and thus a staring coat usually 

 accompanies hide binding. In considering the subject of condition 

 (4) we have seen that it is not a disease of itself, but is in every 

 instance a symptom only. 



Glanders and Farcy. 



71. The glanders is the opprobrium medicorum, for hitherto no 

 - attempts have succeeded in the cure of more than a few cases. By 



some peculiar anomaly in the constitution of the horse, although 

 conclusive proofs are not wanting that this and farcy are modi- 

 fications of one disease, and can each generate the other ; yet the 

 one is incurable, while the other is cured every day. When glan- 

 ders has been cured, the time and labour necessary to accomplish 

 the end has swallowed up the value of the horse ; and has also, in 

 many supposed instances of cure, left the animal liable to future 

 attacks which have occurred. The experiments on glanders, pur- 

 sued at the veterinary college and by White of Exeter, have thrown 

 great light on the disease itself, its causes, connexions, and con- 

 sequences ; but have done little more. From these we are led to 

 conclude, that glanders will produce farcy, and that farcy can pro- 

 duce glanders. That glanders is highly infectious, and that such 

 infection may be received by the stomach, or by the skin when it 

 is at all abraded or sore : and it is also probable that it is received 

 by the noses of horses being rubbed against each other. White's 

 experiments go to prove that the air of a glandered stable is not 



