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animals. Yaulx and Dessine, on account of their marshes, and 
Guillotiere on account of its stables, inundated during the last 
autumn. One predisposing cause, and often occurring, depends 
on the service exacted from those horses, who travel during the 
greatest part of the night, exposed to all kinds of weather, in order 
to remove the refuse of the cess-pools. 
February and March have been the months most remarkable for 
the frequent development of farcy. Next to them were December 
and April. The months of May and December presented the least 
possible quantity of farcied cases. 
Glanders. 
Glanders have not produced any great proportion of farcied ani- 
mals : 130 horses were only afflicted with this disease. It is in the 
spring and summer that we have the greatest number of glandered 
animals. Some doubtful cases have been removed by the em- 
ployment of the budding-iron on the glands, and fumigations more 
or less exciting. The other evident cases of glanders resisted every 
mode of treatment. 
Divers saline substances were injected into the jugular veins of 
some of these horses, during many days, in small doses. They in 
almost every case aggravated the evil. The chloride of ammonia, 
the ioduret of potash, the sulphate of zinc, and the chloride of 
soda produced various changes in the state of the blood, but no 
effect was produced on the glanders. . pr- 
ojections into the nasal cavities with a solution of sulp^tte of 
zinc have contributed to cure many chronic discharges; bid they 
produced no effect in cases in which ulceration had previously ex- 
isted. Finally, we have, but without success, fought jagainst the 
existence of mange by injection into the nostrils witji a solution 
of the chloride of zinc ; one of the caustics most employed in hu- 
man surgery, and of which we made some fortunate applications on 
wounds coupled with degeneracy of the tissues. 
Epizootic Disease. 
During the month of June, an affection analagous to the epizootic 
of 1825 and that of the last year, has again made its appearance. 
Contrary to the former attacks, it seemed to have the greatest pre- 
ference for horses that seldom travelled far, from whom little labour 
was demanded, or which — newly imported — now first paid their 
tribute to the climate. 
They were principally Flemish and Boulonais horses that were 
first attacked : they were luxurious-looking animals, and of middle 
