188 THE ANATOMY AND DISEASES OF THE NOSE AND MOUTH, 

 became sore or the horse was violently purged, when the sulphate of copper 

 was substituted for the corrosive sublimate. During this treatment the animal 

 was placed, if possible, in a large box, with a free circulation of air ; and green 

 meat or carrots, and particularly the latter, were given, with a full allowance 

 of com. If he could be turned out in the day, it was deemed highly advan- 

 tageous. It is related by Mr. Blaine, that a horse, so reduced as not to be 

 able to stand, was drawn into a field of tares, and suffered to take his chance. 

 The consequence was that, when he had eaten all within his reach, he contrived 

 to move about and search for more, and eventually recovered. Many horses 

 recover under the use of the sublimate, but the great majority of them die. ^ 



Mr. Vines introduced a more effective medicine — cantharides, in combination 

 likewise with the vegetable bitters — as a cure for farcy and glanders. It can- 

 not be denied, that many animals labouring under the former, and a few under 

 the latter, were to all appearance radically cured. The medicine was suspended 

 for a while if affection of the kidneys supervened. 



A still more effectual medicine has been introduced by Professor Morton, 

 namely, the diniodide of copper, and it has been found of essential service in 

 farcy and in diseases simulating glanders. He says that its action is that of a 

 stimulant to the absorbent vessels, and a tonic. The gentian root is usually 

 combined with it. Cantharides, in small quantities, may be advantageously 

 added. An indication of its influence is a soreness of the diseased parts arising 

 from the absorbent vessels being roused into increased action : the agent should 

 then be for a time withheld *. 



Water-Farcy, confounded by name with the common farcy, and by which 

 much confusion has been caused, and a great deal of mischief done, is a dropsical 

 affection of the skin, either of the chest or of the limbs, and belongs to another 

 part of our subject. 



THE LIPS. 

 The lips of the horse are far more important organs than many suppose. 

 They are the hands of the animal ; and if any one will take the trouble to 



* A very interesting case of the cure of In many of them the centre was of a pale 



farcy in the human being occurred in Jan. green colour, having a somewhat gangrenous 



1 840, in the practice of Mr. Curtis, a respect- appearance. The headache was worse ; there 



able surgeon of Camden Town : — was a sensation of weight over the eyes, and 



" Mr. (jr., a student at the Veterinary Col- tenderness over the left frontal, 

 lege, had, about three weeks before, received tc Mr. Curtis determined to put him under 



a slight wound on the forefinger of the right a course of iodine, of the tincture of which 



hand, while dissecting a glandered horse. The eight minims were ordered every fourth hour, 



wound healed ; but, about nine days after- the bowels being kept in a relaxed state, 

 wards, a small abscess formed in the part, " On the fourth day, the centre of the 



which he would not consent to have opened ; blotches, which were still green, appeared to 



the pus was therefore absorbed, and the finger form cavities, containing a fluid, from about 



got well, and neither the lymphatics nor the the size of a shilling to that of a half-crown, 



glands appeared to be affected. The blotches were surrounded by hard, defined 



" Ten days afterwards, he was attacked edges, covered with cuticle, but the thickening 

 with giddiness while attending the lecture, of which was gradually disappearing, 

 and obliged to leave the room. He imme- " Two days after this, the fluid in the ca- 

 diately applied to Mr. Curtis. He had three vities was absorbed, but round their edges 

 blotches of inflammation of the skin of the were lumps, or tubercles, about the size of 

 right leg, varying in extent from two to four peas. Several weeks passed before the tuber- 

 inches in diameter. The leg was very painful cles quite disappeared. 



when he walked ; and he had also some small " Mr. Curtis remarks, that so far as a 



blotches on the left leg. He had headache single case will go, the intractable nature of 



and thirst. His case was sufficiently plain — this disease seems to arise rather from neglect 



farcy was beginning to develop itself. Ape- in its early stage, than from any impossibility 



rient medicine was administered. of subduing it." — The Veterinarian, vol. 



" On the following day, there were nume- xiii. p. 353. 

 rous small blotches over both legs and thighs. 



