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HEREDITARY DISEASES OF HORSES. 
nature has directed our efforts in the treatment of the farcy 
form of the disease as well as that of chronic glanders. 
Small bloodlettings frequently repeated, sudorifics combined 
with derivatives, and an appropriate regimen, alone offer the 
best chance of success. 
Isolation of the subject is indispensable. Communicated 
glanders have less chance of recovery than the spontaneous 
disease. 
After all, our most precious consideration is prevention. 
Reflection on the causes may add to this. Stall dressing 
and clothing animals in a sweat will, by avoiding humidity 
and cold with wet, constitute potent means for arriving at 
this end. 
I make no pretension to having developed the secrets of 
nature ; science has not yet said her last word ; what I have 
aimed at is, giving my own views of such matters, in order 
that they may serve to direct to the subject the attention of 
Recueil de Med . Vet., June , 1853. 
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ome Department 
E HEREDITARY DISEASES OF HORSES. 
By Finlay Dun, Jun., Y.S., Lecturer on Materia Medica, &c.‘, -at 
the Edinburgh Veterinary College. 
Prize Essay. 
(From the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society , vol. XIV.) 
SECOND PART. 
(Continued from p. 530.) 
ii. The Hereditary Diseases of Horses . — In regard to the 
hereditary diseases of horses we shall consider, first, those of 
a local nature, afterwards proceeding to those which are more 
general in their character, and which affect the system as a 
whole. 
Local hereditary diseases are usually simple in their 
nature, and consequently their predisposing causes are easily 
traced, and usually consist in some peculiarity of external 
form more or less obvious. This observation chiefly applies 
to several sorts of lameness, which we shall now notice. 
Bone Spavin consists in inflammation of the ligamentous 
