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but all such cases may have been apparent rather than real — a mere suti. 

 pension of the active powers of the poison — and they ought to be looked 

 upon with suspicion. These may be resumed at some future time and 

 with fatal result. 



It remains now but to suggest some precautionary measures to prevent 

 contagion, in addition to those which have already been given. If a 

 atable is known to have been used by a glandered horse, no other animal 

 should be allowed to occupy it until the trough, the rack, and the walls 

 have been thoroughly scraped and scoured with strong soap and warm 

 water. Then take one pint of chipride of lime and dissolve it in two gal- 

 lons of water, with which thoroughly saturate every part that the horse's 

 nose may have touched. Next, white-wash the walls inside. Then burn 

 bridles, halters, buckets out of which he has drunk — whatever may have 

 been about his head — and if any blanketing has been used have it care- 

 fully cleansed by washing, or burn it up. 



n. Farcy. 



Causes — In treating of glanders and farcy there is a great diversity 

 of opinion as to the relations in which they stand to each other — which 

 is the antecedent, which the consequent ; but the most sensible view of 

 the matter, and the one taken by the ablest veterinarians, is this : that 

 the two arc but different manifestions of the same disease, and that they 

 might with propriety be so treated. Regarding them separately it is 

 difficult to say which is the more acute form, w^hich the more chronic, as 

 it is now generally conceded that a horse afflicted with what may seem at 

 first a well-developed case of glanders may be presently laboring under 

 confirmed farcy — the last state apparently worse than the first ; again, a 

 case of farcy may assume the type to which the name glanders is applied, 

 and in this case also there seems to be a development of the first into a 

 more hopeless disorder. 



This would be a matter, however, of no special consequence to the 

 intelligent horse owner were it not that the fconfused notions of men 

 concerning the two affections might chance to bring him face to face with 

 this difficulty : that, unable to eliminate the truth from the tangled 

 statements of some who, entertaining diverse views, may take it upon 

 themselves to advise, he may find himself halting between two opinions 

 when it is of ^'^tal consequence that he should be doing something. Let 

 him be assured that it is wholly unnecessary to trouble himself with nice 

 questions as to the priority of either disease or the real difference 

 between them ; the one important point for him is to be able to detect in 

 *he incipiency of an attack of either that one of them is present. 



