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To prevent Horses being ieazed with Jlies. 

 Take two or three small handfuls of walnut 

 leaves, upon which pour two or three pints of soft 

 and cold water — let it infuse one night, and let it 

 boil for a quarter of an hour — when cold it will he 

 fit for use. No more is required than to moisten 

 a sponge, and before the horse goes out of the 

 stable, let those parts which are most irritable be 

 smeared over with the liquor, viz: between and 

 upon the ears, the fiank, Sec. 



Glanders and Farcy. 



The glanders is the opprobrium medicorum, for 

 hitherto no attempts have succeeded in the cure 

 of more than a few cases. By some peculiar an- 

 omaly in the constitution of the horse, although 

 conclusive proofs are not wanting that this and 

 farcy are modifications of one disease, and can 

 each generate the other; yet the one is incurable, 

 while the other is cured every day. 



The marks of glanders are a discharge of pur- 

 ulent matter from ulcers situated in one or both 

 nostrils, more often from the left than the right. 

 This discharge soon becomes glairy, thick and 

 white-of-egg-like : it afterwards shows bloody 

 streaks, and is fcetid. The glands of the jaw of 

 the affected side, called the kernels, swell from an 

 absorption of the virus or poison, and as they exist 

 or do not exist, or as they adhere to the bone or 

 are detached from it, so some prognosis is vainly 

 attempted by farriers, with regard to the disease; 

 for in some few cases these glands are not at all 

 affected, and in a great many they are not bound 

 down by the affection to the jaw. As there are 

 many diseases which excite a secretion of jnatter 



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