390 THE MODKliS HOK3E DOCTOR. 



theae cases, let it be well observed that there is no lymphatic dis- 

 ease, nothing like farcy buds and cords ; in which circumstance 

 it is (connected with the course and termination these respective 

 diseases are seen to have) that we are to seek for a correct diag- 

 nosis. But how are we to distinguish farcy buds from some 

 cutaneous eruptions — from surfeits * — which appear so much 

 like them ? There is but one species of farcy for which these 

 eruptions can be mistaken; and that is the diffuse or broadcast 

 variety — the button farcy. Now, should the attack be farcy, 

 the probability is, from its being a general one, that the animal 

 will show signs of ill health at the time ; whereas a horse that 

 has ' broken out in a surfeit all over his body,' is commonly in 

 unusually good, what is termed fine condition. Then, again, 

 surfeit lunqys are often large and irregular in form, and frequently 

 appear in patches ; whereas the buds of button farcy are small, 

 and regularly spheroid in shape, and spread pretty uniformly 

 over the body. Again, surfeit eruptions are often but of an hour 

 or two continuance — rarely are they visible on the following 

 day ; any doubt, therefore, that may impend over the case is not 

 likely to be of lengthened duration." 



The causes of farcy exist in. any thing that deranges the lym- 

 phatic system ; and probably the same causes that operate, either 

 by contagion or otherwise, to produce glanders, will produce 

 farcy. " By inoculation, farcy has been produced by the matter 

 of glanders, and glanders by the matter of farcy ; and, conse- 

 quently, there is every reason to infer a similarity, or rather an 

 identity, in the viruses of the two diseases ; and in further proof 

 of this, as we said before, one disease, or form of disease, almost 

 invariably terminates in the other prior to dissolution. There 

 can be no question but that the same contaminated Or miasmatic 

 atmosphere of the stable or elsewhere, which produces glanders, 

 may occasion farcy, and vice versa" 



Treatment of Farcy. — The patient should be placed in a 

 well-ventilated stable ; if, however, the season permits, a run at 

 grass, in the daytime, will be preferable. Pure air and green 



* Surfeit. A disease of the skin, consisting in an eruption of small pustules. 

 It appears to arise from a diseased state of the stomach and bowels. — White. 



