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said that the farcy is often curable, while g-landers is 

 scarcely ever so. Now, when this is said to be the case by 

 the very men who maintain their identity, there must be 

 some extraordinary process of reasoning- going on in their 

 minds ; but the truth is, as I have remarked, that wiiereas 

 those cases of glanders which come under treatment are 

 very severe ones, so they are difficult of cure; and in the 

 same way farc}^ is seldom suffered to be developed from 

 g-landers when that was originally in a malignant form; 

 and hence, b^^ being mild, it is curable. Such I believe to 

 be the explanation of the fact, which is universally admitted, 

 that farcy is much more amenable to treatment than 

 glanders as usually presented to the veterinar^^ practi- 

 tioner ; the former being seldom malignant, and the latter 

 generally so. The cure is effected by local as well as con- 

 stitutional means. 



The local remedy is the destruction of the ulcer or bud, 

 either by the actual cautery (the budding iron), which 

 should be applied- to every ulcer or bud so as completel}^ to 

 destroy it. The knife should first divide those buds which 

 have not ulcerated, after wiiich the iron will act more 

 energetically upon them., and yet with less destruction of 

 the surrounding skin ; or the sulphate of copper should be 

 freely rubbed into the ulcers, and made to destroy their 

 surface. Arsenic and strong nitric acid, likewise, have 

 been used with success, but their power is too great to be 

 trifled with by an inexpei'ienced man. Whatever local 

 remedy is used should be followed up wherever the bud 

 makes its appearance, as there seems to be no tendency to 

 heal without some destruction of parts giving a new and 



