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they appear yellow ; if phlegm abound, they are iDhhe ; 

 and if there be a redundancy of burnt, black, and me- 

 lancholic humours, they are of a blackish colour, which 

 is the most dangerous of all the four cases. 



'' The Farcin resembling a Hen's Fundament. — In 

 this kind the knots are seated between the flesh and 

 the skin, without any visible external swelling ; they 

 resemble corns, and fasten the flesh to the skin. If the 

 cure be not timely begun, the disease enters into the 

 body, and, infecting the inward parts, kills the horse. 

 Sometimes the knots are fastened to the inside of the 

 skin only, and are not rooted in the flesh ; they ap- 

 pear usually on the fore part of the breast, and are 

 very easily cured." 



Causes. — To2:ether with the usual causes of Glan- 

 ders, probably it is only contagious when the matter 

 is inserted into the sores, or a part cut open in another 

 animal. A gentleman once tried the eflect on an ass, 

 by inserting the pus of a farcied horse into the mucous 

 membrane ; the consequence was in a week it became 

 glandered. Cracks and grease, when it has lasted some 

 time, will degenerate into Farcy. Any of the causes 

 w^hich produce ulcers on the extremities, may be con- 

 verted into the same disease. As regards the symp- 

 toms, enough has been already said at the commence- 

 ment of the subject to form a tolerable opinion on this 

 head. 



Treatment. — Wlien accompanied with Glanders treit 

 as directed under that head. But in Farcy there are 

 likewise, from their contiguity, as many opinions as 

 on Glanders. Although the cure has been attempted 

 more successfully when the horse has been afilicted 

 singlv. Mercury has been tried : and what is still 



