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At the same time give freely of flour of sulphur and liver 

 of antimony ; and if you have a number of horses infected, 

 be sure to rub them all together. 



Some people say that when a horse is rubbed for the scab 

 he will infect others, but I am of opinion that he will not, 

 neither do I remember an instance of it. 



The Farcy, or Farcin. 



There have been many opinions respecting this disease. 

 Some authors reckon five kinds 5 but although there are so 

 many ditferent branches, yet four of them have the same 

 root. The Water Farcy is different from the others, and 

 therefore I shall put it afterwards by itself There is a 

 scurvy which horses are subject to, and which is often called 

 a Farcy ; but it is no such thing, for there are only the two 

 kinds of Farcy, which I shall here treat upon. Horses are 

 often said to have the Farcy when they have not, for some- 

 times when people do not know the proper name of a disor- 

 der, they call it the Farcy. The true Farcy is a disorder of 

 the blood-vessels, and generally follows the course of the 

 veins, and when inveterate, thickens their coats and integu- 

 ments in such a manner that they become like so many cords. 



Symptoms. — At the beginning of this disorder a few small 

 knobs or tumors, resembling grapes, are found on the veins, 

 which are so painful to the touch that the creature shows 

 evident marks of uneasiness on their being pressed with the 

 finger. They are at first very hard like unripe grapes, but in 

 a very little time they grow soft, and break and discharge a 

 bloody matter, and become very foul and untoward ulcers. 

 This disease appears in different places on different horses. 

 Some show it first on the head ; some on the external jugu- 

 lar vein ; some on the plate vein, extending from thence 

 downward, on the inside of the fore-leg, towards the knee, 

 or upwards towards the brisket. In some it first appears 

 about the pasterns, on the sides of the large veins, and ou 

 the insides of the thighs, extending towards the groin ; in 

 others on the flanks, spreading by degrees towards the lower 

 belly ; and some horses are nearly covered all over the body 

 at once. 



Cure. — When the Farcy attacks only one part of a horse, 

 and that where the blood-vessels are small, it may be easily 

 cured ; but when the plate vein is affected and turns corded, 

 and especially when the crural veins, withinside the thigh, 

 are in that condition, the cure is very difficult, and the crea- 

 ture is rarely fit for any thing but the lowest work after it. 



