122 Farcy, 



Calomel has been strongly recommended in Farcy, but, as far as I 

 am capable of judging, on no good grounds. 



Tiie advocates for its use have, in fact, commonly been those, 

 who are too fond of applying analogy, to all possible cases. And 

 it has been too much the fashion, to suppose, that all such medi- 

 cines as appeared to be powerful in the diseases of the human bod}^ 

 were equally so in those of the Horse. To hear some people talk, 

 indeed, one would imagine, that w^e had only to consider the Horse 

 as a large four-legged man, and to proceed in the treatment of his 

 diseases accordingly. 



The absurdity of such reasoning, however, need not be much in- 

 sisted upon, as, it must appear evident to every intelligent, and 

 more especially to every philosophical mind, that different systems 

 (as has been observed in another place,) are governed by different 

 laws, and that analogy must consequently be, at best, but an imper- 

 fect, and will, too frequently, prove a deceptive guide^ 



Now, the mode of attack of the bud, or button Farcy, and the 



concomitant symptoms, are in a considerable degree different from 



those, which I have decribed as attendant on the inflammatory Farcy 



of the limbs. — For, in the former, we rarely find any great feverish 



indisposition, nor, does it commonly attack a Horse suddenly. On 



the contrary, the animal is usually dull and dispirited, and either 



refuses his corn altogether, or eats it with indifference for several 



days, and sometimes for many weeks, before any buds or swellings, 



appear upon the skin. His coat loses its usual healthy appearance, 



he falls off in flesh and spirits, and there is in many Horses, a great 



struggle in the constitution, before any decided symptoms of Farcy, 



make their appearaucc. Very frequently. Worms are suspected to 



