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and glanders in the horse ; not only as it concerns our personal safety, 
but also that of those persons who may chance to be exposed to 
the baneful influence of such dangerous contagious diseases. For 
when we reflect on the susceptibility of man to the virus of farcy 
or glanders, the incurable nature of those diseases, and the immi- 
nent danger to which he becomes exposed when taking care of 
such dangerous animals, we ought, in my humble opinion, to make 
the pecuniary advantage of our employers a secondary considera- 
tion, and advise them to destroy horses affected with either of those 
diseases with as little delay as possible. The value of a horse’s 
carcass ought to be regarded as a trivial consideration in compa- 
rison with the hazard of sacrificing human life, and the probability 
of occasioning domestic bereavement, as well as endangering the 
veracity and respectability of the veterinary profession. Moreover, 
as farcy and glanders are foreign diseases to the system of the 
human subject, they must necessarily be regarded as loathsome ; 
and, on that account probably may excite in the mind of the un- 
happy patient such abhorrent and repulsive feelings as are 
unsuitable to the inevitable fate that awaits him. 
Perhaps we may regard the general swelling of a leg as the 
precursor of farcy ; and although the swelling may subside from the 
effect of medicine, still in such cases, it behoves us in common pru- 
dence, and as veterinary practitioners, to make known our sus- 
picions respecting the latent poison of farcy, which may shew itself 
at no very distant period with all the virulence so peculiar to that 
disease, and endanger both the lives of unsuspecting people and 
valuable horses. 
Gentlemen, 
Your’s truly. 
June 15, 1846. 
EXTRACTION OF AN EMPHYSEMATOUS CALF, AND 
PUNCTURE OF ONE OF THE UTERINE VEINS. 
By Mr. W. A. CARTWRIGHT, M. R. C. V. S. } Whitchurch, Salop. 
On the 8th of April, 1846, I was sent for to a cow that could 
not calve. I was ordered to make haste, as she was momentarily 
expected to die. I arrived there in a short time, and found that 
persons had been trying to get the calf away for several hours, but 
could not succeed. The two fore-legs and head had been got out, 
but the latter they had, foolishly enough, cut away. The parts 
presented were emphysematous, and, of course, much enlarged. 
