306 . SYiMPTOMS OF l-AKCY. 



of its existence. Sometimes, one of the limbs — most likely a 

 hind one — will swell heloio instead of above the hock, and the 

 swelling will increase around the fetlock, and an abscess will form 

 there. In other cases, blotches or isolated pustules will break out 

 upon the limbs — more likely upon the inner than the outer sides of 

 them — or upon the body, or upon the shoulders, neck, breast, or 

 quarters; and these will break and discharge among the hair 

 clothing those parts an ichorous or dirty-looking thin puriform 

 matter. We trim the hair off one or more of these blotches, as 

 they happen to arise, and find them with a yellowish sloughy 

 base, which by some escharotic dressing, or by cauterization, we 

 soon reduce to a healthy granulating surface : in the mean time, 

 however, while we are doing this, others make their appearance, 

 and in some remote parts, perhaps : this may serve to increase our 

 suspicions concerning the nature of the eruption, and yet not con- 

 firm them. Any doubts we may still entertain are not doomed, 

 however, to long duration. Soon will corded lymphatics be dis- 

 covered issuing from one or other of these patches of pustules, run- 

 ning into buboes, and thus resolving, beyond all question, the veri- 

 table nature of the case. 



The general Swelling of the surrounding parts, which or- 

 dinarily accompanies the development of farcy-buds, may not 

 come on until some time afterwards : rarely does it precede the 

 buds. The common attack includes the simultaneous appearance 

 both of buds and swelling : the hind limb — for that is the part, of 

 all others, most likely to suffer — becomes swollen from quarter down 

 even to hoof, and often, as I said before, to an alarming degree, 

 exhibiting everywhere heat and tenseness and tenderness, and 

 feeling oily or greasy upon the surface, from some sebaceous exuda- 

 tion. The whole limb is evidently seized with a violent inflamma- 

 tion, and the fever observable in the system is commonly in 

 some sort of proportion to it. What affects one appears to affect 

 the other: as the one declines, in consequence of the buds coming 

 to maturity, the other declines, and should one after abatement or 

 subsidence shew a tendency to exacerbation, the other will be 

 found to manifest similar disposition. 



The unwillingness with which the patient moves, the stiff and 



