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be the cause of the mischief, and such remedies as are supposed to 

 have specific properties as vermifuges, are usually had recourse to^ 

 At length, the disease shows itself in small tumors, in various parts of 

 the skin, but more especially about the trunk. It is not difficult to 

 distinguish these buds or Farcy swellings, from such as arise sud- 

 denly, without previous indisposition, at all seasons of the year, but 

 especially about spring and autumn, on the skin, (attended with 

 encreased heat of that integument,) and which I consider to be the 

 Nettle-rash of the Horse. The latter are much broader, flatter, 

 and, commonly, more thickly strewed over the surface, than the 

 swellings of true Farcy, which are^ not unaptly indeed, styled 

 buds. These are hard, small, circumscribed, and usually much 

 fewer in number, than the former. 



Bleeding, on the attack of this species of Farcy, seems altogether 

 unnecessary^ and might indeed prove very prejudicial. It is not so 

 however, with respect to mild, and moderate purging ; for it is com- 

 monly adviseable, to give a gentle dose of physic, unless there be 

 symptoms of very great debility. After the operation of the physic, 

 the subsequent treatment of the animal, may be precisely^ of the 

 same kind, as that, which has beea already laid down, for the in- 

 flammatory Farcy of the limbs. This mode of treatment will com- 

 monly succeed, provided it be adopted before the disease has made 

 great ravages in the constitution, and more especially, if it be com- 

 bined with the important advantage of turning the Horse out to 

 grass for a few hours every day. I have said that this disease is the 

 peculiar offspring of our ordinai-y stable management, and nothing 

 will, perhaps, prove the truth of this opinion more satisfactorily, 

 than the notorious fact^ of Farcy rarely shewing^ itself amongst such. 



