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ease, though the animal may, by care and judicious management, 

 be kept up for a time, he will, in the end, turn what has been 

 called " hectic" or (with less propriety) " typhoid," and end his days 

 in phthisis. As to chronic farcy , it is impossible to say how long 

 it may remain in the state of inactivity and apparent harmlessness 

 into which it has, either of its own accord or through treatment, 

 relapsed, or to make sure even for a day that it will not spring up 

 again in the system in all the virulence of the acute disease, and 

 put a speedy end to the animal's existence. The following case, 

 communicated by Mr. Horsburgh, V.S., Dalkeith, to The Vete- 

 RINARINAN for 1843, is well adapted to shew how rapidly and de- 

 structively farcy, when it is acute, frequently runs its course : — 



On the Gth April 1842, Mr. Cossar, horse dealer, bought from Mr. 

 Thomson, another horse-dealer, a bay pony for £9, warranted sound. The 

 pony was delivered to Mr. Vessy, inn-keeper at Dalkeith, without having 

 been at all in Mr. Cossar's stables : Mr. Cossar also warranting the animal 

 sound. 



The pony being very fat, Mr. Horsburgh, V.S., was requested to give him 

 a dose of physic on the 8th April. While giving the ball, Mr. H. perceived 

 a mark below the off eye, like that of a recently-healed wound, but having a 

 peculiar shining aspect, with a depression in its middle as though the point of 

 the finger had been impressed upon it. This was noticed to the groom. 



The morning of the 10th (the physic having been working the day before, 

 and set over night) the groom came to Mr. Horsburgh in a great hurry, say- 

 ing, " The pony was all over swelled and stiff, and could scarcely move." 

 Mr. H. found him as described, with the lymphatics swollen to that degree 

 on his quarters, that any body would have imagined he had been recently 

 whipped severely. The mark under the eye was also tumefied. 



The day after (the 11th) the disease was but too evident. The place under 

 the eye had broken, and become a spreading sore; the lymphatics of the 

 thigh were much swollen, and presented numerous farcy buds. The sub- 

 maxillary glands were swollen and hard, and there was discharge from both 

 nostrils. 



\Wi. Every symptom shews the rapidity with which the disease is run- 

 ning its course. The head is swelling, the discharge from the nose greatly 

 increasing, the limbs (the hind ones especially) much swollen, and farcy buds 

 multiplying in all directions. 



IQth. Mr. Dick saw the patient, and, as he was in so hopeless and dan- 

 gerous a state of disease, ordered him to be destroyed. 



Farcy terminates in various ways. The termination most to 



