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neglected, or not perceived at its commence- 

 ment ; should the lymphatics be enlarged or 

 corded (as it is termed by farriers), and the 

 neighbouring glands swollen, the cure is by no 

 means so certain. In this case some of the 

 poison may have got into the circulation, 

 though its efiTects have not been visible. Even 

 in this stage, however, the chancre may be 

 completely cured by the actual cautery, or 

 other strong caustics ; and if the poison should 

 not have passed the glands, the cure will be 

 radical — but if, on the contrarv, the smallest 

 portion of the poison should have insinuated 

 itself into the blood, the whole mass will be 

 poisoned, and the sj-mptoms we have before 

 described will successively take place. 



Whenever therefore tli« farcy has been ne- 

 glected at its first appearance, it will he ad- 

 visable to give the following ball, once, twice, 

 or even three times a day, if the horse's 

 strength will admit of it, taking care to restrain 

 its inordinate effect upon the bowels or kid- 

 ney's by meuns of opium : at the same time it 

 is necessary to keep up the horse's strength by 

 a liberal allowance of corn. Malt has been 

 found useful also on these occasions. During 

 the time the horse is taking this strong medi- 



