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confirms this account. On the same authorities also we may state 

 that the liver, the spleen, and the testicles, have all been known to 

 exhibit farcy. In the case of disease of the mucous membraney 

 be it in the intestinal canal or in any other situation, to be consist- 

 ent in our pathology, we ought to call the disease glanders. 



In Nature farcy is identical with glanders : they are, let it be 

 remembered, one and the same disease seated in different tissues 

 and localities of the body ; glanders being an affection of mucous 

 tissue, seated in the head; farcy one of dermoid tissue, appearing 

 upon the limbs and body ; both originating in disease set up in 

 the lymphatic system. 



Writers on Farriery have regarded farcy as a disease of 

 the bloodvessels, of the veins in particular; and considering that 

 farcy cords take in general the same course which the superficial 

 veins are seen to do, and that the knowledge these writers pos- 

 sessed of the lymphatic system amounted to little or nothing, we 

 need not feel surprise at their running into so venial an error. 

 SOLLEYSELL* informs us, that the ''farcin may easily be known 

 by the knots and cords that run along the veins, and are spread 

 over the whole body." And he describes " four kinds of farcin," 

 to which he says " all the rest may be reduced;" and that "the 

 second sort of farcin is accompanied with hard swellings, re- 

 sembling ropes or strings, that run beneath the flesh and the skin, 

 along the veins, especially those of the thigh, neck, brisket, and 

 along the belly." 



A century later than the time of Solleysell we find the best 

 English veterinary author of his day, GiBSONt, a surgeon as well 

 as veterinary surgeon, still believing that " the true farcy is pro- 

 perly a distemper of the bloodvessiels," notwithstanding he treats 

 in the same work of the " distribution" and " use" of the lymphatic 

 vessels. " When inveterate," he continues, " (the farcy) thickens 

 their (the veins') coats, and common integuments, so as they be- 

 come like so many cords, and these are larger or smaller in pro- 

 portion to the size and capacity of the veins that are affected by 

 it. It is seldom perceivable on the arteries, because of their con- 

 tinual motion and pulsation," &c. &c. 



* Op. cit., p. 198. t Op. cit., p. 2.57. 



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