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of prevention than any we are now acquainted 

 with, and may possibly enable us even to cure 

 it in its earliest stages. It has been said that 

 inoculation with cow-pock matter will render 

 a horse insusceptible of glanders; but this I 

 believe is at present merely conjecture: the 

 idea is certainly plausible, and the experiment 

 ought to be made. 



(See Glanders, Appendix.) 



Farcy. 



The farcy generally appears in the form of 

 small tumours or buds (as they are commonly 

 termed) frequently in the course of the veins, 

 from which they are erroneously supposed to 

 consist in a sweliiniy of those vessels. These 

 tumours generally burst, discharging a thin 

 watery matter, and degenerating into foul 

 spreading ulcers. The contiguous glands are 

 usually inflamed and swollen from an absorp- 

 tion of the poison. This dii>ease sometimes 

 xnakes its appearance in diffused swellings of 

 the hind legs, or other parts of the body. The 

 most common cause of farcy appears to be 

 contagion, either from a glandered or farcied 

 horse, for there can be no doubt that these 



