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the farcy ulcer will often manifest a phagedocnic or sloughing dis- 

 position, extending itself into the surrounding tissues and such as 

 are deep-seated, consuming them all alike in one common destruc- 

 tion. Now and then the ulcers change into what has been called the 

 cancerous condition : they lose all propensity to spread, and yet 

 cannot be got to heal ; they dry up, and their surfaces grow hard 

 and acquire in time the same sort of insensibility and indolence that 

 farcy-buds do when they refuse to proceed to suppuration. 



The Parts most obnoxious to Farcy are the hind limhs; 

 next to them, perhaps, the /ore limbs; then the breast, the head, 

 the neck; and, lastly, the trunk. In whatever member or part of 

 the body the eruption takes place, we look for the disease in the 

 situation and course of the lymphatic vessels, which, for the most 

 part, is the same as that of the larger bloodvessels. Thus, when 

 the attack is on the hind limb, we expect to find the cords of farcy- 

 buds running up the inside of the thigh ; when on the fore limb, 

 along the inside of the arm; when on the breast, along the axillary 

 hollow, in the course of the plat vein ; when on the head, about the 

 lips and along the cheek, from the angle of the mouth towards the 

 lower jaw and into the submaxillary space ; when on the neck, fre- 

 quently taking the course of the jugular vein. As a general ob- 

 servation, we feel warranted in asserting that the nearer the head 

 farcy makes its eruption the more the danger of glanders following, 

 though it be a rule to which very many exceptions will present 

 themselves in the routine of practice. When the head itself be- 

 comes the part attacked by farcy we may entertain the greatest 

 apprehensions of glanders approaching. Commonly, one hind 

 (sometimes one fore) limb is affected to the exclusion of the other ; 

 at other times, a hind and fore of the same side will prove so, the 

 disease confining its attack still to one side of the frame : it does 

 not often happen that either both hind or fore limbs are simultane- 

 ously affected. When the attack is a general one all four legs 

 will become diseased. 



A remark everybody has made in respect to parts attacked 

 by farcy is, that the disease exhibits at all times almost a pre- 

 dilection to places where the skin is thin, and nearly or quite 

 hairless : the insides of the thighs and arms, the lips, nose, &c., are 



