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.T. P. KLENCH. 
If horses that had been suspected for some time showed sud¬ 
denly one or more farcy-buttons, or a farcy cord, or any farcy 
swelling on any part of the body, and especially the hind legs, 
the case was treated as one of glanders. A bad coat, an old, 
chronic, resisting cough, and, especially, the appearance of a 
sarcocele or any kind of swelling in the testicular gland or its 
cord would constitute a bad sign ; and in connection with two of 
the pathognomonic symptoms would cause the horse to be con¬ 
demned as glandered, even if no regular chancre could be seen. 
I laid a special weight on the character of this cough, for the 
reason that a good many of the suspicious horses had that symp¬ 
tom at the first visit already, and just such horses were certain 
to turn out bad in a shorter time than horses who had it not. 
This cough was quite unlike that of chronic pulmonitis or bron¬ 
chitis ; is was dry, repeating and painful, with a dull, oppressed, 
profound sound. I would compare it with that of pulmonary 
emphysema, except that it had more sound. This c<»ugh, which 1 
used to call glandered cough (toax morcease) was due to the 
presence of tubercles in the pulmonary tissue. 
The general treatment for our glandered and suspicious 
horses consisted of a tonic arsenical powder, composed of arsenic, 
gr. xv ; pulvis nux vomica, 3 ss ; gentian and ginger, powder 
of each 3 iii ; giving one powder a day for two, three or four 
weeks. Usually rest was taken every fifth day. In most of the 
cases, when the nasal discharge was abundant and persistent, one 
or both maxillary sinuses were trephined and injections made 
therein with sugar of lead, sulphate of zinc, tannic decoction, tinc¬ 
ture of aloes, and even liquor of Villate, according to circum¬ 
stances. 
But the directors asked me to try a “proc6de” which, they said, 
had been employed by their veterinary surgeon in England with 
tolerable success in many cases. I consented to submit that treat¬ 
ment to a fair trial, though' I did not put any faith in it at first; 
but I must acknowledge that after using it several times I com¬ 
menced to think better of it, and was willing to credit it with a 
good effect. The following is the treatment, which, for short, I 
will call the English medicine : 
“ Diet for twelve hours, then heavy bleeding of from four to 
