272 STABLE MANUAL AND HORSE DOCTOR 



Corrosive sublimate 



Arsenic 



Verdigris 



Blue vitriol 



Mix into a ball with palm oil and 

 every morning. 



. grains. 

 . 5 grains. 

 . 5 grains. 

 . J scruple, 

 linseed meal; give 



In addition to the several acids, benefit may be derived 

 from the following drinks, in conjunction with the ball last 

 mentioned. 



Sea bathing and daily doses of sea water have been 

 found beneficial in cases of farcy with enlarged limbs and 

 cedematous swellings. 



Local Treatment in farcy is of as much consequence as 

 constitutional means. In glanders we are, in respect to the 

 extent and nature of the disease, working in the dark ; we 

 know neither the precise condition nor the exact situation 

 of the ulcerations. In farcy the local disease is under our 

 eye, and we can apply topical remedies suited to the 

 inflamed, tumefied, ulcerated, scirrhous, or other condition 

 of the limb. 



In their inflamed condition, the best application to the 

 cords of farcy-buds is a refrigerant or evaporating lotion. 

 With this they ought to be sponged often enough to keep 

 the hair wet, the object being to repel or disperse the 

 swellings. 



In the majority of cases of farcy it happens that, instead 

 of diminishing in size and growing harder in consistence, 

 the buds plump up and become soft, and at length turn into 

 pustules ; and once a pustule formed, it will ripen and burst, 

 and turn into an ulcer. As soon, therefore, as we perceive 

 that it is out of our power to prevent the suppurative stage 

 it becomes our duty to contribute all we can to its promo- 

 tion. For this purpose fomentations may be used to the 

 parts ; poultices likewise, if we can manage to apply them. 



