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healthy. He believed farcy affected the whole animal tribe. He had 
known many cases recover and work well, and apparently get quite well, 
but some morning or other one’s attention was called to the animal; 
sometimes there is a discharge, and the symptoms return again. Cases of 
farcy were never cured; the disease still existed, and the secretions from 
the animal would create the disease in healthy animals, and the one 
diseased was rarely suspected as the cause. He knew a case where the 
culprit escaped detection for a long time. Wherever there was a sus¬ 
pected case he would have it destroyed at once, it was the cheapest plan 
in the end. He always advised his clients so, and if they refused he 
would not undertake treatment. In cases of supposed cure one would 
find that if the animal was galloped it would roar; this also applied to 
suspected cases (he would not say it was diagnostic). He had heard them 
groan, and observed, in the majority of cases, that as the farcy dis¬ 
appeared the groaning diminished. Two or three years since, by way of 
treatment, he injected into the jugular vein of an animal twenty or 
thirty drops of carbolic acid dissolved in glycerine. It slowly recovered 
and the limb returned to its normal size, but the acid produced atrophy 
of the muscles, for which it had to be destroyed. It was beneficial for 
farcy, but produced wasting away of the muscles and extreme debility. 
Mr. Sampson said some years since he remembered treating and 
recovering a valuable horse; he personally attended him. He had 
eighteen buds, cost no end of money, and ate a great deal. He galloped 
him round the grounds and found he grunted ; since then he had 
observed this symptom in other horses affected with farcy. Another case 
of farcy he knew in which the animal had only one bud on the neck. 
He was eight or nine years old. He made a post-mortem on him, and 
could find no trace of farcy. Syphilis was a blood poison and was cura¬ 
ble, therefore farcy ought to be curable. It was worth while to con¬ 
sider farcy in this light. 
Mr. Sheaiher could not see why the public should be compensated for 
lung disease more than for glanders and farcy ; if compensation was 
allowed more cases would be reported. He did not believe in white¬ 
washing stables, the infection was still kept there. He used small hoes 
to scrape down the walls, and then scrubbed them with hot water and 
carbolic acid, and unless that was done the whitewashing had no good 
affect. He considered horse repositories a great source of infection ; 
the inspectors should visit them before a sale, and inspect the horses. 
Cabmen and omnibus proprietors having suspected horses instead of 
killing them sent them to be sold. He knew it by having purchased 
horses at sales himself. Such horses when bought spread infection 
among others, 
Mr. Shaw drew attention to the fact that frequently grooms used 
brushes and combs that had been used to diseased horses to healthy ones, 
thereby spreading the disease. 
The Secretary said he would like Mr. Broad to give him his experience 
of the mirror he produced on a former occasion to which he (the Secre¬ 
tary) took exception as being too flat. Also, was it possible to refuse 
entry to any officer for the purpose of inspecting a case or supposed 
case ? Also, if he advised a client to have a horse destroyed without 
stipulating the disease, and the knackers on cutting the animal up for 
meat discover it to be diseased, does the owner incur the penalty, or both 
of us ? 
With reference to stables, many of them were rickety and slovenly to 
the last degree—broken doors, displaced boards, &c. It frequently 
happened that the animal that caused the spread of the disease in a 
