WITH IODINE AND THE SULPHATE OF COPPER. 635 
of the face and lips were very much swollen — the coat staring — 
the animal dull, off' its food, and very weak. As the owner 
prized the horse very much, and was anxious to have something 
done at once, I did not wait for the diniodide of copper, but 
wrote the following prescription on the 23d of July: — 
R 
Hydriodat. potass* 
Cupri sulph 
Divid. in chartulas sex quarum detur unam omni mane. 
Jss 
Jij- 
M. 
Food of the most nutritious kind was procured, and vetches 
and clover. 
I also gave some iodine and mercurial ointment to be rubbed 
on a large indurated swelling that had formed on the near cheek. 
As the owner lived some miles from me, I was not able to see 
my patient until the 30th, when I found considerable amend- 
ment — some of the buds having disappeared — the swelling on 
the face being gone, and the animal in good spirits and eating 
well. Other cedematous swellings, however, were forming in 
various parts, which very much frightened the owner, as his 
grooms were telling him that the horse had very bad water- farcy. 
However, I simply ordered hand-rubbing, and gave about ten 
more powders, which performed a perfect cure. 
CASE II. 
Th is was a common working horse, old, and out of condition, 
and the symptoms he exhibited were those of glanders and farcy, 
in my opinion, and also in that of two or three farriers in this 
part of the country, who all advised that he should be shot. 1 
was the more, perhaps, disposed not to coincide with them in 
their opinion, and to be a little obstinate about the matter, when 
they told me that the discharge, which was from the left nostril, 
had only commenced three or four days previously, although I 
found the septum thickly studded with ulcers. 
If I had only found this running from the ulcers, I should not 
have been so confident that it was glanders, for it yielded very 
speedily to my treatment I remember, when at the Edinburgh 
Veterinary College, having seen (after distemper) ulcers on the 
septum nasi, which yielded to tonics ; but in the case which 
I now relate, there were well-marked ramifications of farcy, and 
the owner told me that the horse had exhibited this appearance 
for some time before the running commenced. It was, therefore, 
evidently farcy, terminating in glanders. 
What the treatment of the farriers had been I cannot say; but 
it was of very little service, and the swelled leg, covered with 
buds on the inside, the discharge from the nostril, and the buds 
