303 THIRD STAGE OF FARCY. 



size within the cellular tissue, are those most apt to manifest a 

 secretion or effusion of this latter description. 



The second stage of farcy is not invariably suppurative. Now 

 and then the disease takes quite a different turn. The farcy-bud, 

 instead of becoming soft, grows firmer and harder, insensible and 

 indolent, and in time acquires a most unusual induration, one 

 amounting to scirrhosity ; and in this condition may continue for 

 an indefinite length of time, the horse appearing to have quite 

 recovered his accustomed health and spirits, and seeming, and 

 working with his " big" leg, as though he ailed nothing. And 

 work now will do his farcied limb good ; it will prove a stimulant 

 to absorption, and in time considerably reduce the size of it. Let 

 not his master, however, fondly hope, or believe the flattering tale, 

 that his servant is " cured." No, no ! this state does not consti- 

 tute cure, but rather check or arrest. One day, it is to be dreaded, 

 a fresh eruption will make its appearance, either in the enlarged 

 limb or in some other, perhaps remote, part of the body ; — nay, 

 glanders may unexpectedly present itself: and then comes home 

 to the mind of the master the utility and truth of the warning he 

 had received, but may possibly have disregarded. 



The Third Stage of Farcy is the ulcerative. The pustule 

 has broken, its overhanging flaps of capsule have disappeared, and 

 an ulcer of a chancrous description is disclosed to view, large or 

 small, in accordance with the size of the original bud, circular in 

 figure, having its surrounding edge inverted, its base yellow and 

 strewed with bloody points. In consequence of the cutis, after a 

 time, becoming its seat or 7iidus, and also, in some measure, owing 

 to its lying exposed to the air, and especially if any escharotic or 

 detersive application should happen to have been used to it, the 

 farcy ulcer will by degrees, in a sound constitution, assume a 

 healthy aspect, and evince a disposition to grarmlate ; and very 

 often, with a little medical care, will granulate and heal up, and 

 even cicatrize : at other times, and particularly so long as any mor- 

 bid action continues to prevail, do all we can, the sores can be made 

 only to dry up. When, however, the constitution of the animal is 

 unsound or linhealthy — from disease of the lungs or other cause — 



