IODINE IN PURE FARCY. 
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31s^.—By escharotic dressings the farcy ulcers have been 
almost healed up. The legs are less swollen. The submaxillary 
enlargement (which has been considerable) is manifestly di¬ 
minished. The dung is not so dark coloured. 
June 4:th ,—Declining again, both in general health and spirits. 
The near nostril (as well as the otfj has comnienced discharging. 
I augmented the dose to gr. x morning and night. 
June XHth ,—Progressing from bad to worse. The disease is 
making now rapid march in every affected part. All hopes of 
any benefit being derived from iodine appear now to have totally 
vanished; it was therefore deemed useless to persist. The 
horse was condemned to die the next mornino'. 
The above case altogether will be regarded, I think, as satis¬ 
factorily shewing the inefficacy of iodine as a counter-agent in 
farcy and glanders, though it probably might be given in larger 
doses than it was here exhibited: still, I think, the quantity 
must be considered (if we may reason from analogy) of sufficient 
magnitude to warrant us in regarding it as having been put 
pretty fairly to the test. Indeed, in bronchocele it has proved 
more successful in small than in large doses. 
Iodine in Pure Farcy. 
Another case in which the iodine was exhibited was one of 
jmre farcy, contracted under similar circumstances to what the 
last was. At first, his indisposition was such as to induce the 
groom to believe the horse had caught cold” from change of 
stable. 
March 22, 1833.—He was dull in the stable, and lacked his 
wonted activity and animation 9 ,t exercise. His appetite was 
not so good as ordinarily. His pulse was 60. He looked rough 
and dingy in his coat. His hind legs were filled, and there 
seemed a disposition in him to fever. He had for years been 
kept high in condition, and but little worked. Purg. mass, ^ss ; 
to be given immediately. 
March 2Xth .—Dung softened j appetite and spirits improved; 
legs less swollen. 
