FARCY. 14; 



should be first fully abated by local cooling applica- 

 tions ; and in severe cases, purges administered before 

 the application of blisters or powerful absorbents. 



FARCY. 



This dreaded disease is, I believe, like glanders, in- 

 curable, and generally ends in glanders itself. 



Some practitioners seem to be under the impression 

 that it only attacks worn-out and ill-conditioned ani- 

 mals ; but from personal losses and sad experience T 

 may venture to differ entirely from such an opinion, 

 and to state that I have seen horses in the finest con- 

 dition lost by it. No doubt feeble animals are very 

 liable to it, but the disease is not confined to such con- 

 stitutions. I have remarked that, when contracted by 

 high-conditioned horses, it can be traced to their being 

 called on occasionally to do extra work, followed by 

 entire rest for days together, as a sort of equivalent for 

 the spurt of work done, during which period of rest 

 (considered necessary on account of the beast's sup- 

 posed state of exhaustion) his powers are taxed with the 

 same amount of high feeding as if he were in full work. 



Thus the absorbent system seems to become diseased, 

 and farcy-buds appear, accompanied by craving thirst, 

 in which case, or on the least suspicion of the disease, 

 reference should at once be made to a professional man. 



From these buds (whence after a time matter is seen 

 to exude) small cords may be traced leading to other 

 swellings, rather serving to distinguish the early stages 

 of farcy from surfeit, besides that in surfeit the lumps 

 appear indolent and scabby. 



