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to prevent the regurgitation of the fluid. In farcy, 

 these vessels have a knotted appearance where the 

 valves are situated, and are commonly called buds, 

 or berries. The disease is known by the following 

 symptoms. 



Farcy buds appear along the course of the lym- 

 phatic vessels, which are first hard, but soon turn 

 to soft blisters ; when broken, they discharge a 

 thinnish matter, tinged with blood, and often turn 

 into obstinate and malignant ulcers. In some 

 horses it shows itself on the head only, or neck ; 

 in others, on the shoulder and inside of the fore-leg 

 (commonly called the fore-arm), towards the knee, 

 and often upwards to the brisket ; in some it shows 

 itself on the hind parts, about the pasterns, and 

 along the large lymphatic vessels, on the inside of 

 the thigh, rising upwards into the groin, and to- 

 wards the sheath ; sometimes it appears on the 

 flanks, and spreads by degrees towards the lower 

 belly ; and when the disease proceeds, the mucous 

 membrane of the nose is affected in a similar man- 

 ner to what it is in glanders, and it may now be 

 said to have terminated in glanders. 



When the farcy first appears on the lymphatic 

 vessels, about the forehead, cheeks, outside of the 

 shoulders, near the withers, or the hip, &c. it is 



