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nally and applied externally to the nose, has apparently 

 cured the disease. The Spanish fly is also said to have had 

 the same good effect, but I know nothing- fioni experience 

 of these effects ; and I should he ver^^ unwilling- to try an^^ 

 experiments on such an intractable and loathsome com- 

 plaint. When the disease is established in a lot of horses, 

 they had better all be destro^^ed, and the stable treated as 

 for mang-e. The clothing- should either be destroyed or 

 well washed, and then baked ; the wood of all the stable 

 utensils should be painted, and the ironwork exposed 

 to a red heat. These means will j)revent its being- re- 

 produced, and if proper cleanliness and ventilation are 

 maintained afterwards, whereby the disease ma}^ be pre- 

 vented from being- generated, there is little fear of its 

 occurring again ; but if Professor Coleman's opinion is cor- 

 rect, that it is almost always g-enerated, and consequenth^ 

 if the first attack'was the result of filth and neg-lect, unless 

 the management has been altered, it is scarcely reasonable 

 to expect anything else but a repetition of the same disease 

 occurring from similar causes. 



FARCY. 



By the term Farcy is understood the train of secondary 

 symptoms which follow glanders ; and, just as we see in the 

 syphilis of man a primar^^ sore occurring on a dift'erent 

 part, followed by inflammation of the absorbents, enlaj'ged 

 lymphatic glands, and an eruption on the skin, so in the 

 horse glanders begins as a series of pi-imary sores in tlie 

 mucous membrane of the nose, together with an inflamma- 

 tion of the lymphatic gland, or glands, of the throat ; and 



