888 THE MODERN HORSE DOCTOR, 



and the application of our finger to this will immediately detect 

 a corded, nodous swelling, which has been happily enough, in the 

 sensation it conveys to our feel, compared to a * cord ivith so 

 many knots tied in it.' This is at once declarative of disease in 

 the lymphatic vessels — of the presence of farcy. 



" Tracing the cord upward from its place of origin, which com- 

 monly is above the hock, the hand is carried into the groin, and 

 there discovers a lobulated tumor, a swelling of the inguinal 

 glands, which may, without impropriety, be called a bubo ; some- 

 times, however, the bubo does not make its appearance until after 

 the full development of the cord. 



" Farcy does not at all times commence its attack in this open 

 and unambiguous form ; on occasions it presents itself in a shape 

 so insidious, that at first we hardly suspect it to be farcy, unless 

 there happen to be present circumstances to induce suspicions of 

 its existence. Sometimes one of the limbs, most likely the hind, 

 will swell below instead of above the hock, and the swelling will 

 increase around the fetlock, and an abscess will form there. In 

 other cases, blotches or isolated pustules will break out upon the 

 limbs, more likely upon the inner than the outer sides of them, 

 or upon the body, or upon the shoulders, neck, breast, or quarters ; 

 and these will break and discharge among the hair, clothing those 

 parts with an ichorous or dirty-looking thin puriform matter." 



These are the general symptoms of farcy : if any doubt, how- 

 ever, exists as to the nature of the disease, it will in a few days, 

 sometimes in a few hours, be dispelled by observing corded lym- 

 phatics issuing from these patches, which soon become running sores. 



A case of farcy came under our observation a short time ago. 

 The subject had for some time been suffering under constitutional 

 derangement, gradually losing his appetite and flesh. An influ- 

 enza was now prevailing in the stable, which attacked all the in- 

 mates. The one alluded to had a fetid discharge from the nose, 

 differing from that of the other horses; and soon farcy buds 

 made their appearance, accompanied by swelling of the legs. 

 The fetid breath, together with the constitutional symptoms, 

 would seem to favor the hypothesis that the patient was a sub- 

 ject of deep-seated farcy, and, probably, had been such for a 

 length of time. It was thought advisable to destroy this animal. 



