GLANDERS AND FARtY. 158 
dugular in his opinion as regards the treatment of this disease, » 
quotation from MayuHew is here introduced: 
“Farcy 1s, by the generality of practitioners, regarded as a 
more tractable disease than glanders. Certainly the course of the 
disorder is arrested much easier; but, to cure the malady, there is 
a constitution to renovate and a virus to destroy, Is it in the 
power of medicine to restore the health and strength, which have 
teen underfed, sapped by a foul atmosphere, and exhausted by 
overwork? Tonics may prop up or stimulate fur a time; but the 
drunkard and the opium-eater, among human beings, can inform 
us that the potency of the best selected and the choicest drugs, 
most judiciously prescribed, and carefully prepared, is very lim- 
ited. Sulphate of copper, iron, oak bark, cayenne pepper, and 
cantharides, probably, are the chief medicines the practitioner will 
give. With such the horse may be patched up; he may even re- 
turn to work. But at what a risk! He carries about the seeds 
of a disorder contagious to the human species, and in man even 
more terrible than the quadruped. Is it lawful, is it right, to try 
to save an avaricious master the chance of a few shillings, and 
incur the risk of poisoning an innocent person? The author 
thinks not. Therefore he will give no directions how to arrest 
the progress of farcy. The horse once contaminated is, indeed, 
very rarely or never cured. The animal, after the veterinary sur- 
geon has shaken hands with the proprietor and departed, too often 
bears about an enlarged Jimb, which impedes his utility, a d, at 
any period, may break forth again with more than the virt lenca 
of the original affection.” 
