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Wrap it up warm. This course usually prevails against 

 an ordinary attack of farcy ; and the cure is aided, when 

 it affects the fore leg only, by a rowel inserted under the 

 chest. But the absorption or taking up of the disorder 

 into the system and carrying it off by stool, is by far the 

 neatest manner of managing the cure ; for ihis purpose, 

 give the following ball, after the animal has been redu- 

 ced by the foregoing treatment. 



ALTERATIVE BALL. — Camphor, emetic tartar, asafostida, 

 and ginger, of each one drachm. 



With mucilage sufficient to form a ball for one dose. 

 Give one of these for three successive nights ; then 

 fitop one night between each dose, until the disease is 

 removed. 



If these efforts to absorb the disease prove insufficient 

 to conquer it, recourse must be had to the use of mercu- 

 ry, as recommended for the third or most virulent stage 

 of the disease, which is also the most common of the 

 three. Meantime, we come to consider of that partio- 

 ular kind of farcy v/hich is the least common of all three; 

 and this is wherein the tumors are larger than usually 

 happens, and not so numerous. The disease then per- 

 iakes very much of the nature of critical abscess, and 

 of the strangles, both of which are treated of in the 

 preceeding pages; they appear to cause nature to make 

 efforts toTelieve itself of an accumulation of offensive 

 matter ; and this escaping the cure is effected. In this 

 i5econd kind or stage of farcy, nothing more is requi- 

 site than to promote suppuration, as directed in the dis- 

 ease just referred to, and follow it with the physic pre- 

 scribed for the strufjles. 



The T/ii}d, most common and virulent kind of far- 

 cy, that which comes on quickest, lasts the longest, 

 and requires the most powerful means for its removal, 

 is that which is spread minutely over the body and limbs, 

 and has penetrated the whole system. In which ever 

 manner the animal may have acquired the disorder, we 

 may safely presume that the mass of humours hideously 

 depraved, & mercury, in one or other of its varied forms 

 is the only antidote to be relied upon for its extinction. 

 Previously, however, the farcy buds and ulcers must he 

 reduced to the state of common sores, by means of the 



