FARCY IN EGYPT. 
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gers seldom makes it appearance in a stable without several 
horses being seized with it, and, sometimes going through the 
whole stable, it naturally becomes a question, how can it be pre¬ 
vented from spreading? I am inclined to believe it not communi¬ 
cable from one horse to another, but depending on their all being 
exposed to the same cause; the effect being produced sooner 
or later according to the constitution and the manner of treat¬ 
ment. As preventives, bleeding, and rowels, and medicines 
used as alteratives, have been employed, and have repeatedly 
failed. Wherever I have been called, I have uniformly advised 
a brisk cathartic to the other horses ; and wherever that has been 
employed I have not known"^ any one (except a mare that 
gave milk and took her physic while at grass) fall afterward with 
the complaint: this has served to strengthen my opinion of the 
treatment I have employed. Under the above circumstances, I 
have given physic to twelve different stables of horses, all in the 
year 1800. I therefore think it a fair inference that it was of 
service, and recommend it as the most likely mode of prevention 
I am acquainted with. 
LA LEPRE BOUTONNEUSE, AND FARCY IN THE 
HORSE, CONSIDERED AS IDENTICAL DISEASES. 
ih/ MM. H AMO NT, Founder and Director of the Veterinary 
School, and D. F. Pruner, Professor of Anatomy and Phy^ 
siology in the School of Human Medicine at Abou-Zahel. 
[It is pleasant to see the professors of the two branches of 
medicine uniting together in the pursuit of medical science, and 
each drawing from his peculiar resources illustrations for the 
common good of their respective patients. M. Pruner had, in 
the former part of this Essay, given an interesting, and, if we 
may express an opinion on the point, a valuable account of the 
Elephantiasis of the Greeks, the Black Leprosy, 
Est ELephas morbus, qui propter flumina Nili, 
Gignitur yEg} |)to in media, neque praeterea usquam.— LuCRET. 
This, however, concerns the medical man more than the vete¬ 
rinarian, and therefore M. Hamont shall take up the tale.] 
Farcy, Scabies equrum of the Latins; 
Sarage of the Egyptians ; 
pAti-Sale of the Wahabites. 
This disease exists in many different parts of the world. It is 
found in France, Italy, Germany, Fmgland, Syria, Egypt, Asia- 
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