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at the expense of the surrounding cellular tissue, which either ulcer- 

 ates or sloughs, and thus contributes to the abscesses. 



The fluid the softened farcy-buds contain is found pretty uniform 

 in its character. It conninonly proves a mixture of viscous fluid 

 and coagulated matter ; of inflltrated and softened cellular tissue ; 

 of purulent matter variable in its aspect, and sometimes streaked 

 with blood. We never find phlegmonous (laudable) pus in these 

 small abscesses. 



Farcy-buds are evidently not seated within the pinncijml lym- 

 phatic vessels, and, consequently, have no determinate arrange- 

 ment : we find them here and there ; in the greatest number, how- 

 ever, where lymphatic vessels most abound. At one time they are 

 superficial, at another deep-seated. And they are found in most of 

 the organs of the body : in the muscles, in the tendons, in the peri- 

 osteum, in the skin, in the testicles, in the lymphatic glands, in 

 the lungs, in the mucous membranes, even in those of the digestive 

 passages. 



On some occasions, either when the disease makes rapid pro- 

 gress or the alteration in the fluids proves deep-seated, farcy-buds 

 are soft from their first formation, and burst almost immediately. 

 And then, the buds are not confined to any region in particular, 

 but simultaneously appear all over the body. In this case, the 

 fluid they contain is homogeneous in its aspect, sometimes limpid, 

 oftener livid or muddy ; and this (latter) denotes deep-seated alter- 

 ation of it. The blood, also, is strikingly changed. 



An attempt has been made to distinguish these farcy-buds from 

 what are called real farcy-buds ; the former not being so considered 

 on account of their not being found to communicate Avith the lym- 

 phatic vessels ; the vessels not being injectible through their cavi- 

 ties. This, however, may arise from the extreme exility of the 

 lymphatic vessels, or from their canals being plugged up. What 

 induces Leblanc to regard these isolated buds as farcinous, is the 

 frequent appearance in farcied horses of cords and buds of different 

 sorts at one and the same time. 



In speaking of the alteration the lymphatic liquid undergoes in 

 glandered and farcied horses, Leblanc considers it his duty to make 

 known his opinion of the glanderous lesions that have been called 



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