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from the nose, and which is kept up a considerable 

 time; so it is not always easy to detect glanders 

 in its early stages. Strangles and violent colds 

 keep up a discharge from the nostrils for weeks 

 sometimes. In such cases, a criterion may be 

 drawn from the existence of ulceration within the 

 nose, whenever the disease has become confirmed. 

 These glanderous chancres are to be seen on 

 opening the nostril a little way up the cavity, some- 

 times immediately opposed to the opening of the 

 nostril; but a solitary chancre should not deter- 

 mine the judgment. The health often continues- 

 good, and sometimes the condition also, until hec- 

 tic takes place from absorption, and the lungs par- 

 ticipate, when death soon closes the scene. 



The folloitnng method is recommended as the best. 



Dissolve one pound of glauber salts in warm wa- 

 ter, set it in a bucket in his manger, and he will 

 drink it; take half a gallon of blood from his neck 

 vein; give a mash of two quarts of wheat bran scal- 

 ded with sassafras tea, after which offer him luke- 

 warm water to drink, and do not suffer him to drink 

 any other kind for that day, next morning take the 

 same quantity of blood as before, give a mash as 

 before, with the addition of half an ounce of salt 

 petre dissolved in it, let his food be wet, and of a 

 weak kind — ^a run at grass after the first two days 

 would be of service. 



The farcy is a disease more easily cured than 

 the glanders, of which our daily experience con- 

 vinces us; farcy, or farcin, attacks under distinct 

 forms, one of which affects the lymphatics of the 

 skin, and is called the bud or button farcy: the 

 other is principally confined to the hind legs, which 



