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inguinal glands ; for farcy of the back, loins, or flanks, the glands 

 in the flank; and for farcy in the fore limbs, neck, and shoulders, 

 the axillary glands. M. Maurice makes mention of three hundred 

 cases of farcy cured by such operations. And Renault has in- 

 formed us that the practice has proved successful at the Veterinary 

 School at Alfort. 



Were there any sound reasons for supposing farcy to be, even 

 on its first appearance, a local disease, undoubtedly we should not 

 only be warranted in undertaking such formidable — or, if not 

 formidable, painful — operations as these, but blameable if we did 

 not have immediate recourse to them : when, however, we come 

 to find we have too much reason for concluding that by the period 

 of time at which the eruption shews itself in the thigh or else- 

 where, the virus is absolutely in the system, how can we, in the 

 face of such conclusions, perform operations of the kind, or even 

 put credence in such accounts as have just been stated ] I no 

 more doubt that horses with farcy have recovered after such ope- 

 rations than I do that others have returned to health after taking 

 copper or iron or barytes ; between the POST hoc and the PROPTER 

 hoc, however, there is all the difference in the world. It is absurd 

 to think of extinguishing a disease proved to be constitutional by 

 the extirpation or destruction of tumefied lymphatic glands and 

 farcy buds. 



The treatment proper for the enlarged glands is the same, in the 

 various stages of disease in them, as has been recommended for 

 the farcy buds : endeavouring in the first instance, by refrigerant 

 and evaporating lotions, to abate inflammation in them, and so to 

 effect their repulsion ; and secondarily, when they come to lose 

 their heat and tenderness, to apply blisters over them. It is in 

 vain to try to *' bring them forward" to a state of suppuration, 

 like the ripening farcy bud: they are hardly ever known^to take 

 on the suppurative action. 



By pursuing such a course of treatment as has been pointed out, 

 we not so very unfrequently succeed in patching up the ulcerations 

 and getting rid of the corded swellings in which they originate, and 

 at the same time in so far reducing the size of the farcinous limb 

 as to render the patient (his general health and condition being 



