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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
Another horse that had been sent to our school, where he had 
been treated with success for farcy and inveterate grease, was 
placed, in his turn, by the side of another labouring under acute 
glanders. He worked with him fifteen days without the slightest 
symptom of glanders appearing. We content ourselves with 
stating these facts, without pretending to draw any conclusion 
from them. 
Many cases have occurred during the last session, confirming 
the opinion of M. Renault respecting the occasional cause of 
Farcy ; namely, that it may be reproduced by the reabsorption 
of pus ; that reabsorption either taking place in the interior of the 
abscess, which was not opened sufficiently early, or from the sur- 
face of wounds where pus was suffered to remain too long, either 
not being removed so often as it ought to have been, or having 
no mode of escaping from the wounds. 
This kind of farcy has almost invariably been cured, when the 
existence of the cord, proceeding from the point of suppuration, 
and before it has reached the ganglions and empoisoned the 
fluids collected or circulating there, has been recognized. As to 
the nature of farcy, M. Renault regards it as perfectly identical 
with glanders, there being no other distinction between them 
than the region which they each occupy — the one appearing in 
the lymphatics of the nose, and the other on all the superficial 
textures of the body. As to the objection which may be urged 
against this opinion, arising from the different degree of cura- 
bility in the two maladies, it is more specious than just. It is 
certain, in fact, that a surgeon could cure as many glandered 
horses as those afflicted with farcy, if the diseased lymphatics of 
the nasal membrane were as much within the reach of the knife 
or the cautery as those which appear upon the skin ; and if they 
were surrounded with as much cellular tissue, in order that the 
wounds resulting from their extirpation or cauterization may be as 
easily healed. 
Homoeopathy. — Whatever faith the veterinary surgeon may 
place in the usual routine of medical treatment, he should not re- 
ject, without trial, other curative measures, the theory of which 
he may not be able to understand or explain. M. Renault, pro- 
perly acting on this principle, has put the homoeopathic system 
to the test in the infirmary at Alfort. A medical man, a profes- 
sor of homoeopathy, sent a farcied horse to the school, and 
begged of the Director that it might be treated according to 
this new and inexplicable doctrine. The request was readily 
granted — the experiment was made — but the issue was not for- 
tunate. Different veterinarians have transmitted to M. Renault 
similar accounts of its failure in cases of farcy and glanders. 
