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another, all the while the animal will have a capricious appetite 

 and present alternating indications of depression and renewed 

 vitality; the urine is generalh^ very much increased in quantity 

 and lacks its normal color. 



Farcy is recognized by the swelling of the legs, especially the 

 hind ones, diffuse and general, attended with marked heat and 

 pain; the course of the lymphatic glands and vessels is soon 

 marked out by these standing out beyond the more general swell- 

 ing in well developed cords and buds; these buds become very 

 prominent; they are painful, swell more and more, then burst and 

 discharge the matter peculiar to this disease, leaving deep ulcers 

 with ragged edges. 



We believe that the foregoing list of symptoms will, at all 

 events, serve to enable a horseman to determine if he has a suspic- 

 ious case of glanders or farcy in his stable, and if this be the case the 

 next procedure in his own interests is to subject the suspect to the 

 Mallein test, or if that is really not available then the practice of 

 auto-inoculation may be resorted to, which consists of the follow- 

 ing operation: shave off the hair in the middle of the neck about 

 three inches square in extent; carefully wash the surface of the 

 parts with carbolic soap and dry with a clean cloth; take a sharp 

 scalpel or knife previously held in absolutely boiling water for 

 two minutes, make a very slight incision of one inch long but 

 onh^ sufficiently deep to exude about one or two drops of blood; 

 with the point of the knife take a small quantity of the discharge 

 from one of the ulcers present on the nose or leg, and gently rub 

 the same into the incision; if the horse is the subject of the malady, 

 the symptoms already developed will become intensified, and the 

 temperature will probably rise 2 or 3 degrees, and the seat of 

 inoculation will swell considerably. _ 



In England and on the Continent of Europe the prevailing 

 impression among allopaths is that glanders is an absolutely in- 

 curable disease, and as in pleuro-pneumonia among cattle, the 

 stamping out process is in vogue, and the law is so framed that it 

 steps in to enforce these regulations; it is certainly an exhibition 

 of great weakness and impotence on the part of the veterinary 

 profession that such steps should not only be rendered necessary, 

 but should be encouraged by the profession as a body; at the 

 same time we cannot overlook the fact so long as a glandered 



