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however, she amended both her pace and her flexibility, and in 
the end seemed much benefitted by her forced promenade. 
June 21st .—The tumour has entirely quitted her eyelids. There 
are still troublesome excoriations in her hind heels, occasioned by 
the hobbles; otherwise she is recovered so much in health and 
spirits as even to run and bite at you on entering her box, a trick 
she W'as addicted to prior to her illness. I may, therefore, here 
close this report of her case, by saying, that there seems now no 
doubt whatever, ultimately, of her complete restoration; an event 
no less unlooked for by myself than by my friend Mr. Youatt. 
Iodine in Farcy combined with Glanders. 
The deserved estimation in w^hich Iodine is held as a remedy 
for bronchocele in human medicine, coupled with the presumption 
that the thyroid body itself is of glandular composition, has in¬ 
duced some veterinary practitioners,—among others, myself,—to 
put the new mineral to the test in farcy and glanders. And 
although I have nothing favorable to report about it, still, what 
I have to say may serve as a beacon to direct future investiga¬ 
tions in the same branch of inquiry. The subjects of its opera¬ 
tion were tw^o horses that contracted farcy and glanders whil 
absent from their own stables; or, at least, that became affected 
wdth the disease shortly after their return from having inhabited 
for a week the stables of an inn at which much post and coach 
w'ork was carried on, and wherein, from the constant change 
of tenants, it was very probable that the contagion resided. To 
render my account the more intelligible and clear, I shall detail 
each case separately, beginning with that in wdiich both farcy 
and glanders existed. 
The subject w^as a horse in the prime of life, in good condition, 
and with smooth and glossy coat. He w'as sent to me with a com¬ 
plaint of being “off his feed.’^ I gave him mass. purg. ^ss ; 
orderedJiim change of diet, on which he amended, and, indeed, 
seemed to have recovered. This happened about the middle of 
March. 
On the 1st of April he was brought to me again for having 
a pustular eruption at the bend of the arm, over which the hair 
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