VETERINARY SCHOOL AT LYONS, 1833 . 457 
of the disease, that the com and grass, although small in quantity, 
were well got in, and of excellent quality. 
Some cases of recent local glanders were cured, to the effecting 
of which repeated bleedings from the facial veins, and setons 
placed in the chest, seem to have contributed. 
We have employed turmeric in the cure of farcy, in doses of 
from one to two ounces, according to the size of the horses, in a 
bottle of dry white wine; but this medicine, although some 
empirics secretly employ it as a specific in this disease, does 
not appear to us to have more efficacy than the galangal so long 
and so generally given by our farriers. Far from its being bene¬ 
ficial, we have found that, after it had been regularly administered 
during fifteen or twenty days, the horse began to lose his appe¬ 
tite, the skin became hot, the coat stared, the pulse was 
accelerated, the bowels were constipated, and we were com¬ 
pelled to discontinue it. We have always thought that this 
medicine could suit the constitution of animals of a lymphatic 
temperament alone, and in whom the system fell into a state of 
atony during cold and humid seasons. 
We have had four cases of rabies in the horse. In three of 
these animals the malady was communicated by the bite of a 
dog. In one of them, that had been bitten through the aloe of the 
nose, and whose wounds were cauterized with a red-hot iron on 
the following day, the disease appeared on the twenty-sixth day. 
He was preserved during two days, in order that the owner might 
have an opportunity to observe the symptoms of the disease; 
but then, having broken his halter, and beginning to demolish every 
thing about him, he was destroyed. We had no opportunity to 
examine him after death. 
In the other three horses, and which were brought to our in¬ 
firmary, the disease pursued its usual course, and lasted from 
two to four days. It commenced in all of them with convul¬ 
sive movements of the upper lip, particularly towards the angles 
of them—the expression of the countenance w as that of depres¬ 
sion ; but, all at once, whether some one approached one of them, or 
from an unknown cause, the eye would become animated, w'ild, 
menacing—he would extend his head, in order to bite the person, 
