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and possibly, for some months, the horse will appear to be 

 restored to health ; but he bears the seed of the malady 

 about him, and in due time the farcy assumes its virulent 

 form, and hurries him off. These buds have sometimes been 

 confounded with the little tumors, or lumps, termed surfeit 

 They are generally higher than these tumors, and not so 

 broad. They have a more knotty character, and are prin- 

 cipally found on the inside of the limb, instead of the out- 

 side. 



" Few things are more unlike or more perplexing than the 

 different forms which farcy assumes at times. One of the 

 legs, and particularly one of the hinder legs, will suddenly 

 swell to an enormous size. At night the horse will appear 

 to be perfectly well, and in the morning one leg will be 

 three times the size of the other, with considerable fever, 

 and scarcely the power of moving the limb. 



"At other times the head will be subject to this enlarge- 

 ment; the muzzle, particularly, will swell, and an offensive 

 discharge will proceed from the nose. Sometimes the horse 

 will gradually lose flesh and strength ; he will be hide-bound ; 

 many eruptions will appear in different parts; the legs will 

 swell ; cracks will be seen at the heels, and an inexperienced 

 person may conceive it to be a mere want of condition, com- 

 bined with grease. 



"By degrees the affection becomes general. The virus has 

 reached the termination of the absorbents, and mingles with 

 the general circulating fluid, and is conveyed with the blood 

 to every part of the frame. There are no longer any valves 

 to impede its progress, and, consequently, no knots or buds ; 

 but the myriads of capillary absorbents that penetrate every, 

 part become inflamed, thickened, and enlarged, and cease to 

 discharge their function. Hence arises enlargement of the 

 substance of various parts — swelling of the legs, chest, and 

 head — sudden, painful, enormous, and distinguished by a heat 

 and tenderness which do not accompany other enlargements. 



"It is a question somewhat difficult to answer, whether 

 farcy can exist without previous glanders. Probably it can 



