BUTTON FARCV. 311 



may safely assert that no part of the body can be said to be exempt 

 from an attack of farcy. Now and then the disease will break out 

 in a sort of broadcast form — appear over the body generally, with- 

 out evincing any predilection whatever for those parts along 

 which the principal lymphatics are known to take their course ; 

 on the contrary, will rise upon the outside instead of upon the in- 

 side of the limbs — upon the shoulder, quarters, &c. This is 



Button Farcy, The other kind being distinguishable by the 

 denomination of cord farcy. And we have remarked that, in this 

 variety, the buds, though more numerous, are smaller in size, and 

 continue so through the stages of suppuration and ulceration ; thus 

 bearing a resemblance to the miliary ulceration of glanders : the 

 cord farcy being succeeded by a more true chancrous or phageda3nic 

 ulceration. This smallness and more numerous and general distri- 

 bution arises, no doubt, from the exility of the ramifications of the 

 lymphatics compared with their trunks and principal branches. 

 Another circumstance in which these small buds differ from those 

 of larger size, is their more intimate connexion with the cutis vera: 

 they are frequently so incorporated in substance with it that no dis- 

 section can separate them. This, probably, arises from their hav- 

 ing their origin in cutaneous lymphatics. 



The Lymphatic Glands commence swelling simultaneously 

 with, or speedily after, the lymphatic vessels themselves; and 

 when swollen they evince tenderness, and feel unusually hot 

 likewise, plainly shewing that they also have become the seat of 

 inflammatory action. The glands that take on disease are those 

 into which the farcinous lymphatics directly run,, or through which 

 they pass in their course into their common duct : should a hind 

 limb or the parts of generation become affected, the inguinal glands 

 swell ; should it be a fore limb, the sixillary glands tumefy ; and 

 the same glands become enlarged when the disease invades the 

 breast and shoulder ; and on the occasion of the head becoming 

 the seat of farcy, the same glands — the submaxillary — tumefy, as 

 do when glanders is present. The bronchial glands may enlarge 

 from disease deep-seated in the breast : usually, however, tume- 

 faction of them indicates disease in the lungs. It is stated by 

 Hurtrel d'Arboval, that the mesenteric glands have been found in 



VOL. TTL S S 



