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and improvement in veterinary medicine has done much to cure, 
the disease: for be it known, although we do not arrogate the posses¬ 
sion of any specific, there are forms and stages in which the dis¬ 
ease, in many cases, is curable. 
In reference to the cases published by Mr. Brush, there cannot be 
a question about the ill-fated nurse being contaminated by the 
knacker. The abrasions upon her hand imbibed the poison, and the 
arm of that hand, and the same side of her body, became the seat 
of disease. Had not contact, nay even inoculation, taken place, I 
should say the poor nurse would have escaped. Veterinary sur¬ 
geons have no notion of inhaling infection from glandered or farcied 
horses; their only fear is, that some sore or cut upon their hands 
may meet with the discharge from their patient’s nose, or some one 
of his farcy ulcers. It should therefore be—I take the liberty to 
recommend it in our hospitals—an affair of extreme caution in those 
cases, that those in attendance should not subject themselves to the 
possibility of becoming inoculated. I believe they may breathe the 
same atmosphere with inipunity. 
At the commencement of either farcy or glanders, but of the for¬ 
mer in particular, we veterinarians find depletive remedies most 
useful. When a limb is much inflamed and tumefied, and chorded 
in the course of the absorbents, and sensitively tender to pressure, 
we are desirous to draw blood and to purge briskly; and, in addition, 
we are often compelled to do what seems irreconcileable with this 
inflammatorv condition of limb, which is, to force the animal to 
make use of it by walking exercise. Were it not for the exercise, 
which is repeated once, sometimes twice a-day, experience has 
taught us, that the tumefaction, and with it irritation and fever, 
would augment to a degree even to threaten the animal’s life. 
After we have subdued the inflammatory action and swelling, so 
that the farcied parts appear to have become permanently infiltrated 
and comparatively without feeling, or callous, we find most benefit 
from a combination of tonic with diuretic medicine. The mineral 
tonics—the sulphates of copper and iron—^have proved very service¬ 
able. And, last of all, change of air and living, and turning out to 
grass in the summer season, have often completed the cure. 
ABOUT ASKING QUESTIONS. 
By J. Stewart, Esg.y late Professor at the Andersonian 
University of Glasgow. 
It has occurred to me that we might assist each other very con¬ 
siderably if we were to form ourselves into a catechising society. 
A little reflection will, I think, convince any man that this sugges- 
