USE OF IODINE IN FARCY. 19 
for a week or ten days afterwards, and proved rather trouble- 
some. 
I find, generally speaking, that the inguinal glands sup- 
purate, discharge their contents, and heal much quicker than 
the rest of the ulcers : and the lower down the ulcers are 
situated, the more difficult they are to deal with. This un- 
doubtedly is accounted for by their being further from the 
centre of circulation. 
The cure of farcy is common enough undoubtedly, and 
also easy, provided the animal’s constitution be good, and 
proper attention paid. I send this case merely from recol- 
lecting that, during the time I was a student, you advocated 
the use of the din-iodide of copper in these cases ; and from 
the above case improving so rapidly after the exhibition of 
the two agents in conjunction, I am compelled to consider 
iodine a valuable therapeutic in the treatment of this disease. 
The horse is doing duty with the battery at the present time, 
November 13th, having been discharged from the sick-stables 
about a month. I have examined him carefully since, but 
find not the slightest disposition in the leg to swell, or any 
other symptoms of the original disease present. During his 
probationary or convalescent stay in the infirmary, he was 
regularly exercised, and well groomed ; both of which I con- 
sider essential in this affection, if the horse is not lame. 
The deduction I draw from the cases of farcy that have 
come under my notice, and the success attending their treat- 
ment, is, that every case should be treated with a prospect of 
cure, provided the lungs are healthy and the horse will feed. 
I have a horse under treatment at the present time, but he is 
a foreigner, which very much diminishes my prospect of suc- 
cess ; and his constitution is also much shaken by a campaign 
in the Crimea; but as long as his appetite remains good, and 
there is no indication of internal organic disease, 1 entertain 
a hope that eventually the case will turn out favorable. At any 
rate, I will send to you the particulars of it whichever way it 
may terminate. I may here be permitted to remark, that the 
accommodation in the out-stations of the army, as far as I can 
judge, is very good for the treatment of infectious diseases. 
The sick animal is immediately removed from the rest to a box 
at some distance, and which is white-washed, repainted, and 
repaired (if necessary) before it is occupied by another, so 
that the next occupant finds it as clean and sweet as if newly 
built. 
