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is great tenderness, a burning heat in the limb and much 

 general fever. It is simultaneous inflammation of all the 

 absorbents of the limb. 



" Surfeit can scarcely be confounded with farcy or glanders. 

 It is a pustular eruption — surfeit humps, as they are called — 

 and terminating in desquamation, not in ulceration, although 

 numerous, yet irregularly placed and never following the 

 course of the absorbents, but scattered over the skin. 



" Local dropsy of the cellular membrane, and particularly 

 that enlargement beneath the thorax, which has the strange 

 appellation of water-farcy, have none of the characters of 

 real farcy. It is general debility, to a greater or less degree, 

 and not inflammation of the absorbents. If properly treated, 

 it soon disappears, except that occasionally, at the close of 

 some serious disease, it indicates a breaking up of the con- 

 stitution. 



" Farcy, like glanders, springs from infection and from bad 

 stable management. It is produced by all the causes which 

 give rise to glanders, with this difference, that it is more fre- 

 quently generated, and sometimes strangely prevalent in par- 

 ticular districts. It will attack, at the same time, several 

 horses in the same ill-conducted stable, and others in the 

 neighborhood, who have been exposed to the same predis- 

 posing causes. Some have denied that it is a contagious dis- 

 ease. They must have had little experience. It is true that 

 the matter of farcy must come in contact with a wound or 

 sore, in order to communicate the disease ; but, accustomed 

 as horses are to nibble and play with each other, and sore 

 as the corners of the mouth are frequently rendered by the 

 bit, it is easy to imagine that this may be easily effected ; 

 and experience tells us that a horse having farcy ulcers 

 can not be 8uff*ered to remain with others without extreme 

 risk." 



There is another eruptive disorder to which the horse is 

 subject, that, in this country, is often called farcy, but which, 

 in reality, is nothing more than the eflfect of over-heating, 

 at a time when the blood is out of order. After a day of 



