274 MR, youatt’s veterinary lectures. 
Cool and pure Air necessary. —I would here impress it upon 
you, as I did when treating of glanders, that as farcy is the 
result of our improper stable management, the very foundation 
of our method of cure must be a return almost to a state of 
nature. Cool and pure air, and plenty of green meat, and espe¬ 
cially, if it can be got at, a salt marsh, must be our chief 
restoratives ; or, at least, they must never be forgotten as in¬ 
dispensable auxiliaries in all our medical treatment. 
The apparent Cure often deceitful. —Gentlemen, I have gone 
as far as I dared with regard to the curative treatment of farcy; 
but as the days of sanguine and often disappointed expectation are 
with me nearly gone by, and cold calculation and observance of 
actual result have succeeded, I feel myself bound to add, that in 
the majority, the decided majority, of the cases of supposed cure 
of glanders, the animal was only patched up. Six or twelve 
months scarcely pass ere we have grease, swelled legs, sud¬ 
den lameness, cough, phthisis, glanders, or farcy again. There¬ 
fore do not always think that you have performed wonders 
when the poor emaciated farcied horse comes up plump and 
fat, every ulcer healed, and he, apparently, equal to any kind 
of work. Hope for the best; but do not inconsiderately give a 
prognosis which may not a little compromise your professional 
reputation, and prove of serious injury to your employer. 
Sure predisposition to take on again the Disease. —Be assured 
that horses that have once laboured under an attack of farcy, 
however perfectly they may seem to have been cured, are always 
in jeopardy. The foe is beaten, he is driven to some unsus¬ 
pected lurking retreat, but he is not destroyed. He is slowly 
acquiring new strength, and will probably burst from his 
ambush when you least expect it. I may not, perhaps, be 
justified in positively affirming that the virus is still existing; 
but long experience forces on me the mortifying fact, that there 
is at least a predisposition, and a strong one too, again to take on 
the disease. The tone and strength of the constitution were 
too effectually undermined to be ever again essentially and sub¬ 
stantially repaired. Catarrh will run on to glanders ; grease 
will precede farcy; nay, the commonest operation can scarcely 
be hazarded. Professor Peall says, that a horse that had been 
severely affected with farcy was cured, and remained perfectly 
spund for more than a year. At this period he was castrated, 
and appeared to be going on remarkably well; but on the eighth 
day he broke out with the button farcy over the greater part of 
the surface, and which proved to be a breaking up of the 
constitution, and he died. Do not be discouraged by this. 
Do not abandon the farcied horse to his fate. You are able to 
