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to these circumstances, of very great interest. Ought horses to 
be kept entirely on vegetable food ? We cannot certainly resolve 
this question without having visited many countries, and mul¬ 
tiplied our observations, and compared them with those of other 
travellers qualified to form an opinion on such a subject. 
The researches which we have been enabled to make, and 
which have been conducted with honesty and diligence, lead us 
to this conclusion, th^tfarci/ is a disease of the 'plain country. 
It will be evident, then, how much depends on aliment and lo¬ 
cality, in all preservative treatment and means. Stables may be 
spacious and well-ventilated, but may not offer any advantage, 
unless they are placed in an elevated situation—unless perhaps, 
we give the horses a portion of animal food, that may preserve 
them from the attack of farcy. At the same time it will ap¬ 
pear, that oats, and hay and oats, and barley, although of excel¬ 
lent quality, are not the good food’’ which we should administer 
in order to preserve our horses from this disease. 
“ Vicq. d’Azir proved that broths of animal food have saved 
many animals that had been attacked by murderous epizootics. 
Although this practice, says M. Dupuy, seems contrary to our 
principles of medical treatment, and the nature of the food on 
which herbivorous animals are usually fed, we are compelled to 
acknowledge with Vicq. d’Azir, that in most of the successful 
cases that occurred in Languedoc, the beasts had been made to 
drink great quantities of animal broths.” 
M. Dupuy, on wdiose valuable lectures w'e have had the oppor¬ 
tunity of attending, recommended animal broths in the treatment 
of the rot in sheej). “ By the use of animal food,” said that 
highly talented professor, “we have been enabled to cure dis¬ 
eases that had bid defiance to the ordinary means of treatment.” 
Medical men well know the elf’ect of vegetable food on the car¬ 
nivora, and aliment derived from the animal kingdom will pro¬ 
duce effects as remarkable on the herbivora. 
Farcy being a malady which principally attacks horses in 
which the lymphatic system is developed, may it not, by the aid 
of proper and skilful crossings, give to the progeny an organiza¬ 
tion that will render them less liable to be affected by this 
malady. The effects which have been produced on different 
animals by these means have almost exceeded belief; and often 
the most important changes in ihe form, qualities, and produce 
of certain animals, have resulted, in defiance of the blunders of 
unskilful exj)erimentalists. 
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