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couple of months, to find this horse entirely cured. Caiman, 
another horse whose death had been resolved on, was attacked, the 
night before he was to have been killed, with general anasarca, 
(d’une anasarque complete) produced by the treatment, which, as 
it proved him susceptible of the remedies employed, caused his 
death to be put off ; and the horse, perfectly cured, has been for 
more than a month doing his duty in the ranks. 
It has been said that these horses were not glandered! Well, 
if they were not glandered the horses which I had previously 
ordered to be killed were not glandered either ; and then what 
responsibility have I not incurred after thirty years’ service and 
experience ! 
But, I say it again, that if we compare these results with those 
obtained in the case of thirty-two horses of this regiment, which 
were sent to Pomponne in 1832, not one of which returned to the 
corps, we must acknowledge that they are prodigious, since we 
have radically cured two-fifths of the horses submitted to the ho- 
moeopathic treatment in the course of eighteen or twenty months. 
Let it not be thought that these horses alleged to be cured were 
inconsiderately, or without every precaution being taken, restored 
to the ranks. No one can be more particular than the colonel of 
the tenth regiment, both in watching the course of disease and 
the effects of treatment among the horses of his regiment ; and it 
is only after a month of convalescence and of regular exercise that 
the horses are put again on active duty. In estimating these 
results, too, the state of the atmosphere must be taken into con- 
sideration, which, during the period these horses were under 
treatment, was very sickly, and exceedingly unfavourable to their 
cure. 
With regard to the successful application of the homaeopathic 
treatment to farcy, all I can say is, that I should not dare to publish 
the great and incontestible facts which have come to my knowledge, 
if, by nature of my functions, I had not been a daily witness of 
the happy results of the Hahnemann system. These have been 
so great that we reckon nine-tenths of the horses affected with it to 
have been completely cured; and I can affirm that, but for causes 
independent of this disease, all the horses which have been under 
homoeopathic treatment for it would have been now on active duty 
in the ranks, if a small nnmber of them had not fallen into a state 
of general marasmus [or consumption]. 
In order to complete this statement of facts, I shall indicate, 
under the authority of M. Leblanc, the remedies which he has em- 
ployed in treating these diseases, and the precautions which should 
be taken during their administration. I wish that this frank- 
ness and unreservedness of the veterinary surgeon in chief of the 
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