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trading the attention of the English veterinarian. M. Renault 
asserts, that this mode of cure has been successfully practised in 
the Veterinary School ofAlfort. 
The list of diseases and accidents that have led on to farcy, 
given by M. Renault, will be read with attention :—Division of 
the flexor tendons—thrombus—fistulous withers—common ab¬ 
scess in the neck—inflammation of the parotids. The attention 
of the practitioner in the treatment of these cases will receive a 
new direction, and every means will be taken to accelerate the 
natural process of suppuration, and to prevent the formation of 
indolent abscesses in whatever part they may be situated. 
In considering the treatment of farcy, the administration of 
strong stimulants, and particularly of cantharides, as recom¬ 
mended by Mr. Holford, will receive due consideration. 
Somewhat connected with this, a useful lesson will be learned 
as to the treatment of obstinate infiltration and induration of 
the cellular tissue of the lower part of the legs, by the use of 
deep incisions into which the firing-iron is afterwards intro¬ 
duced, as recommended by M. Lardit. It is a rude and seem¬ 
ingly cruel way of going to work ; but cases do now and then 
occur, where slight scarifications, and emollient lotions, and the 
usual routine of practice have altogether failed ; and, at length, 
a cure has been effected by means of deep incisions and the use 
of the cautery. 
Mr. Toombs has recorded a case of immense abscesses in the 
thigh of a foal, and which destroyed him in about three weeks; 
but he does not speak of any symptoms of farcy accompanying 
the winding up of the affair. 
New and valuable light has been thrown on various diseases 
of the circulatory system. First of all stands the introduction 
and establishment of torsion as a humane and effectual way of 
arresting hemorrhage in almost every operation to which the 
horse is occasionally subject, and particularly in castration. The 
banishment of the iron and the clams in this indispensable ope¬ 
ration will hereafter be acknowledged as a new era in the history 
of veterinary surgery. Here much credit will be due to Mr. 
