FARCY. 131 



Continue the use of the powders before 

 mentioned, with the nitre also, for three 

 weeks or a month ; and so soon as it is con- 

 ceived by the horse's condition he is in a 

 state to bear it, take away a moderate por- 

 tion of blood, and give him afterwards two 

 very mild doses of phi/ sic, selected from the 

 prescriptions under the article of purging, and 

 Uiis will be the more necessary, for reasons 

 that cannot require the least explanation. 



FARCY. 



I MUST confess, I have heard, seen, and 

 read less, to prove satisfactory, upon this 

 distemper than any other to which the horse 

 is subject. Every writer has described the 

 symptoms, but no author, farrier, or groom, 

 has ascertained the cause. Their opinions 

 upon the subject forming a very great simili- 

 tude to Scrub's allusion in the comedy, 

 where he says ^' Some say one thing, and 

 '' some say another ; but, for my part, I be- 

 ** lieve he's a Jesuit/' This is strictly the 

 state of the case with the farcy ; some at-» 

 tribute it to one cause, some to another ; 

 most declare it a bad cause, and all acknow- 



