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glanders, of which our daily experience convinces us ; 

 farcy, or farcin, attacks under distinct forms, one of 

 which affects the lymphatics of the skin, and is called 

 the bud or button farcy : the other is principally confined 

 to the hind legs, which it affects by large indurations, 

 attended with heat and tenderness. A mere dropsical 

 accumulation of water in the legs sometimes receives 

 the name of water farcy; but this has no connection 

 whatever with the true disease in question : farcy is very 

 contagious, and is gained from either the matter of farcy 

 or from that of glanders. 



Treatment of farcy. — The distended lymphatics or 

 buds may often be traced to one sore, which was the 

 originally inoculated part, and in these cases the destruc- 

 tion of this sore, and that of all the farcied buds, will 

 frequently at once cure the disease, which is here purely 

 local. But when the disease has proceeded farther, the 

 virus must be destroyed through the medium of the 

 stomach ; although even in these cases, the cure is 

 rendered more speedy and certain, destroying all the 

 diseased buds, by caustic or by cautery. Perhaps no 

 mode is better than the dividing them with a sharp firing 

 iron ; or if deeper seated, by opening each with a lancet, 

 and touching the inner surface with lapis infernalis. 

 The various mineral acids may any of them be tried as 

 internal remedies w>th confidence; never losing sight 

 of the necessity of watching their effects narrowly, and 

 as soon as any derangement of the health appears, to 

 desist from their use; oxymuriate of quicksilver 

 (corrosive sublimate) may be given in daily doses of 

 fifteen grains ; oxide of arsenic may also be given in 

 similar doses. The subacetate of copper (verdigris) 

 may also be tried, oflen with great advantage, in doses 

 of a drachm daily. It remains to say, that whatever 

 treatment is pursued will be rendered doubly efficacious 



