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duced me to have recourse to all the medicines contained in the 
long list of prescriptions by different veterinary practitioners. 
I am compelled to add, that I have proved the inefficacy of them 
all, and that, in spite of the supposed progress that has been 
made in our knowledge of the nature and treatment of farcy, 
I am ignorant of the means by which I may act directly and 
safely on the circulatory lymphatic system. In fact, we have 
nothing that I am aware of to oppose to farcy, but good and 
abundant nourishment — healthy situations — as much isolation 
as is possible — constant gentle exercise, and the iron and the 
fire. 
When I have applied these latter agents, the most difficult 
thing, the most tormenting, is to obtain the cicatrization — 
I will not say of the w 7 ound, but rather of the ulcers, in which 
there is no suppuration at all, or only developed, as it were, for 
a moment — that cicatrization which, after labouring a whole 
year, and varying in every possible way the means and appli- 
ances which surgery and pharmacy offer, and to the action of 
which these ulcers so soon habituate themselves, we are, perhaps, 
at length, fortunate enough to obtain*. 
In 1836, two years after the publication of M. Leblanc’s 
memoir, the editors of the Recueil de Med. Vet. review it. 
There has long been a great deal of disgraceful and injurious 
warfare among the French veterinary practitioners, and the 
reputation and progress of the veterinary art had much suffered. 
Two years had elapsed, and the editors of the Recueil might or 
ought to have known whether the curative measures of M. Le- 
blanc had been put to the test by other practitioners, and with 
what result — they ought, at least, to have known what had been 
done in their own schools ; and out of the 73 horses of which M. 
Leblanc gives a list, they ought to have had personal knowledge, 
in some of the cases at least, whether any of them had relapsed. 
They say not a word of this : they only say what might have 
been stated on the following day — that they regret that M. Le- 
blanc had not been able to obtain the after-history of more of 
his patients, and that until he does furnish better proof, they 
must suspend their judgment. Not one word of this. The two 
subsequent years are passed over in total silence, and the review 
closes with the ill-natured remark, “ we repeat it, that by a pe- 
cular fatality, the different kinds of treatment that have been 
recommended as efficacious in the cure of glanders, have never 
preserved their efficacy but in the hands of those by whom they 
were discovered.” 
* 
Journal Theorique, 1835, p. 221 ), 
