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other affections of the chest, together with colic, staggers, &c. 
The third division consists of diseases, the inevitable consequence 
of the domesticity of the animal. 
Glanders. — The town of Lyons must always contain a great 
number of glandered horses, on account of the dampness of the 
situation and climate, and its being a public market for horses. 
The garrison at Lyons generally has its share of this disease. 
During this year, the mildness of the winter, and the heat of the 
spring and summer have presented circumstances less favourable 
than usual to the development of this malady ; therefore, with 
the exception of horses from the garrison, and which had been 
long kept in the infirmary at the barracks before they were sent 
to us, we have had very few cases of glanders, compared with 
several preceding years : yet, notwithstanding these favourable 
circumstances, we are compelled to acknowledge, that it has 
been as rebellious to treatment as ever. Our means of cure have 
always possessed too little power, seeing that when ulceration of 
the pituitary membrane begins to appear, the lungs and the 
constitution of the animal have undergone a modification which 
it is exceedingly difficult to remove. 
The greater part of the animals that have gone from us appa- 
rently cured of glanders have speedily relapsed when they have 
been subjected to hard work, or have been exposed to neglect and 
privation. 
Farcy. — The same local circumstances are favourable to the 
development of another malady, which, as being often curable, 
is not of so serious a character, — I mean farcy. The dampness 
of the stables and <of the atmosphere, and the stagnation of air, 
are the productive causes of this disease; for when the sun 
begins to have power, and the atmosphere is dry, and the stag- 
nant air is put into motion, the evil ceases. It is on this 
account that Limonest, and the neighbourhood of Salvagny on 
the north-west, and of Saint Symphorien d’Ozou on the south, 
furnish many fewer cases of farcy than Lyons. 
The greater part of the farcied horses respecting which we 
have been consulted, or that have been treated in our infirmary, 
have been very quickly cured, and almost by the unassisted 
power of nature. The farcy tumours, even those on the extre- 
mities and the head, and that have usually been most ob- 
stinate, have undergone a slight process of suppuration, and have 
gradually died away without any new eruption. Five horses 
only, out of twenty-six, died or were destroyed. 
There has always been this peculiarity respecting that kind of 
farcy which attacks the muscular parts about the croup and the 
thighs, — that there is a marked tendency to gangrene, even after 
