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Lymphangitis, big leg, weed, or water-farcy (not a good 

 term, apt to be mistaken for farcy), is another serious 

 trouble due to errors in feeding, the lymph channels and 

 nodes are inflamed, consequently their working is more 

 or less hindered, over-feeding, lack of exercise or sud- 

 den change to large quantities of a new food, etc. It 

 might be considered as a disease in which the lymph has 

 stagnated (stopped moving) in the lymph vessels, these 

 vessels it will be remembered acting especially as car- 

 riers of waste material from various parts, hence this 

 stagnated material acts as a foreign object with the result 

 inflammation of the organs affected. 



There is excessive swelling of one or more limbs, often- 

 est a hind one, the swelling extending from top to bot- 

 tom of the limb, which is hot and painful to the touch ; 

 running the hand down the inside of the limb the lymph 

 nodes are felt, the temperature is above normal, great 

 lameness, rapid breathing, hard full pulse, the lymphat- 

 ics are seen to be enlarged; owing to the cause, lack of 

 exercise, it is oftenest seen on Monday morning, hence it 

 has been termed Monday morning fever. Attention to 

 the diet, bran mashes every Saturday night containing 

 a tablespoonful of saltpetre will almost certainly prevent 

 the disease. A horse once attacked is liable to have the 

 trouble recur and as a consequence a chronic enlarge- 

 ment and thickening of the limb (elephantiasis). This 

 disease must not be confounded with ordinary stocking 

 up of the limbs which is painless; or with the local form 

 of glanders, termed farcy, a very dangerous disease, both 

 to Man and animal to have anything to do with. 



