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FARCY. 



This is regarded by the author as an incipient stage of 

 glanders, or as a type of the same disease, and with proper 

 management is curable. Experiments prove that the virus 

 from a farcied horse will produce glanders by inoculation in a 

 sound one, and that the glandered matter will in lii^'e manner 

 produce farcy. There are two distinct varieties or stages of 

 farcy : one, which is called buti,on farcy, is altogether super- 

 ficial, being confined to the lymphatic vessels of the skin, and 

 readily yields to medical treatment ; the other variety makes 

 its appearance in the extremities, generally upon the inside 

 of the hind legs, which become completely engorged ; but the 

 swelling is very different from the ligaraentary thickening, or 

 from cedcma, being very uneven or lumpy, excessively tender, 

 and painful to the touch. Small abscesses are formed, which at 

 first discharge a healthy pus, but soon ulcerate, and discharge 

 a thin, sanious matter. These abscesses, or tumors, first make 

 their appearance on the inside of the hind legs, and then on 

 the fore ones in like manner; the neck and lips come next in 

 turn, and they may afterward appear in all parts of the body, 

 when glanders will begin to manifest itself. 



By way of treatment, good wholesome food is all important. 

 Sulphate of copper in two-drachm doses, combined with one 

 or two drachms of pulverized gentian root, will often prove 

 successful ; corrosive sublimate, also, in ten or fifteen grain 

 doses, night and morning, has often been advantageously 

 used ; the doses may be increased to a scruple, or even half a 

 drachm, if the animal bears the medicine well. If the animal 

 is much debilitated, give calomel in half-drachm doses instead 



