552 TREATMENT OF FARCY AND GLANDERS. 
in it. Indeed I remember Professor Spooner advocating the 
same thing in his lectures. 
The animal can work with perfect ease and comfort when 
it is on, but if taken off, the noise she makes is insufferable, 
and the distress of the animal correspondingly great. 
ON THE TREATMENT OF FARCY AND GLANDERS 
AND CAUSE OF STRANGLES. 
By Percy Smale, V.S., Leamington. 
If there be any truth in my idea as to the cause of glan- 
ders and farcy,* I think there are three things we should 
keep in mind in our endeavours to counteract these diseases 
and to work a cure. 1st. To prevent as far as possible the 
reabsorption of the vitiated secretions by injections of disin- 
fectants, &c. If we could cause metastasis of the secretion 
to an exposed surface, which might be more easily kept 
clean, it would be very desirable, but I fear the proneness to 
undue secretion of the air-passages will prevent it. 2d. To 
abstain from giving as food all leguminous seeds and cereals 
rich in phosphates. I think we may trace the failure of 
some of the most likely, remedies to the non-observance of 
this precaution. 3d. The administering of those chemical 
agents which are resolvent in their action, at the same time 
keeping up the tone of the system with vegetable tonics. 
In a case of what I considered incipient farcy that came 
under my treatment about three months ago, I gave Iodine 
and Chlorine, mixed in the form of Iodide of Potassium and 
Chloride of Ammonium, with perfect success. I do not 
say positively that the disease was farcy ; but there were the 
febrile symptoms, weeping eyes, mucous discharge from the 
canthi, swollen off hind extremity, soreness of the lymphatic 
glands of the groin, with small pustules both inside and out- 
side of the hind legs, discharging an ichor which matted the 
hair ; and taking into consideration the employment of the 
animal — that of a boat-horse on the canal going into the coal 
districts, so rife w 7 ith glanders and farcy — I think any vete- 
rinary surgeon would be justified in giving those medica- 
ments w'hich he considered the most effectual in cases of 
* See page 250, et seq. 
