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which presently burst, and discharge a yellow, watery fluid. 

 After this discharge has been going on for some time, it 

 undergoes a material change. The exudations become more 

 mattery, purulent, and offensive, and are mixed with blood. 

 These ulcerous pustules most frequently break out upon the 

 legs, neck, and shoulders, which are often almost entirely 

 covered with them. At first, they are sometimes confined to 

 the legs, and, occasionally, to but one of them. They swell, 

 and give forth ofiensive discharges ; the disease spreads, until 

 the whole body often becomes a putrid and loathsome mass ; 

 and, finally, the sufferer dies. 



Farcy is extremely contagious in all its. stages, as its con- 

 nection with glanders would lead us to expect. It is usually 

 one of the fearful fruits of criminal neglect or mismanage- 

 ment, by which the horse is allowed to rot down in damp, 

 moldy stables, or amid accumulations of filth and dirt. The 

 generation of this disease, more, perhaps, than that of glanders, 

 speaks volumes in dispraise of some one. 



We quote Youatt's account of farcy, which, although not 

 precisely in harmony with every detail of our own observa- 

 tions, seems to us to be correct, in the main : 



" Farcy is intimately connected with glanders. They will 

 run into each other, or their symptoms will mingle together, 

 and before either arrives at its fatal termination, its associate 

 will almost invariably appear. An animal inoculated with 

 the matter of farcy will often be afflicted with glanders, while 

 the matter of glanders will frequently produce farcy. They 

 are difierent types, or stages, of the same disease. There is, 

 however, a very material difference in their symptoms and 

 progress, and this most important one of all, that while' 

 glanders are generally incurable, farcy, in its early stage and 

 mild form, may be successfully treated. 



" While the capillary vessels of the arteries are every- where 

 employed in building up the frame, the absorbents are no less 

 diligently at work in selecting and carrying away every useless 

 or worn-out portion or part of it. There is no surface, there 

 is no assignable spot on which thousands of these little 



