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severe exercise, little knots appear on the neck, shoulders, 

 and side, with a little scabby excresence on the top of each. 

 They last but a few days, and then go away of themselves. 

 "No danger whatever attends them, and they merely evidence 

 some degree of impurity of the blood, which proper physick- 

 ing will readily correct. This is really only a species of 

 quick surfeit ; yet the masses, in many parts of this country, 

 attach no other meaning to the term farcy than this feeble 

 and entirely erroneous application. 



TREATMENT. 



As farcy is simply a constitutional development of glan- 

 ders, or, at least, a disease of precisely the same type, its 

 treatment must be the same as that prescribed -in the last 

 section for glanders. Perhaps the principal reason why its 

 treatment in England has been attended with better "suc- 

 cess than that of the other malady is, that remedial agents 

 have been more directly and extensively applied in the one 

 case than in the other. But the tobacco treatment, espe- 

 cially as concerns the swabbing out the nostrils, brings the 

 remedy in equally close contact with the parts affected, in 

 both eases. 



Our experience does not confirm Youatt's statement, that 

 farcy is more readily cured than its precursor and companion, 

 glanders. 



For the treatment of the little eruptions known as farcy 

 by many American farmers, see section on Surfeit, in Chap- 

 ter YIII. 



DISTEMPER. 



Many of the symptoms of this disease seem to identify it 

 with the " strangles " of the old farriers, a name which, un- 

 doubtedly, took its rise from the circumstance that the horse 

 is liable to be choked while eating, from his frequent attacks 

 of coughing. English writers describe " strangles " under its 

 old name to this day ; but in this coui^try the term is almost 



