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are of the same nature as the ulcers of the lining mem- 

 brane of the nose in cases of glanders. This may or may 

 not be true. But why not have given the reasons why 

 these relations were so related to each other ? Thus as- 

 sertion is put for fact, and ignorance for great knowledge. 

 Farcy is not a disease attacking the absorbent vessels, 

 nor glanders of the lining membranes of the nose. Farcy, 

 we are again told, is curable, and in the very next sen- 

 tence that glanders is incurable. Why this peculiarity? 

 for if the diseases be the same, they ought to be both sus- 

 ceptible of cure. From all that has been said and written 

 on the subject of farcy and glanders, nothing satisfactory 

 has been gained, but much that is calculated to perplex. 

 Farcy is the "scrofula" of the horse. It is unknown in 

 countries and climes where this disease in man is never 

 seen, and a disease inseparable from the present manner 

 of domestication. In a word, the disease called farcy is 

 nothing more nor less than the effects of a class of patho- 

 gens called ferments, leavens, or zumins, acting and pro- 

 ducing fermentation in the blood. (See Glanders.) In 

 medicines zumins are used, such as yeast, rennet, pepsin, 

 and cow-pox matter. Among the various diseases of the 

 horse produced by ferments, are glanders, farcy, purpura, 

 grease, and several eruptions of the skin and legs. This 

 is readily explained. For instance, if the liver, kidneys, 

 skin, and bowels of a horse be not acting right, how is 

 effete matter to be eliminated or carried from the blood 

 or the body of the animal? This effete matter, as a small 

 piece of membrane, dead bone or pus, not escaping by the 

 usual channels, will decay and become an active ferment 

 in the blood and in the fluids of the body. This, then, 

 is the only true explanation of the phenomena of farcy 

 in the horse. 



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