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khe skin, and does not readily yield to medical tretitment. Such 

 horses are noticed as belonging to the nervous temperament, hav- 

 ing thin, spare muscles, wiry neck and limbs, very quick and 

 active in their movements, and having a very narrow chest. Yet 

 it should be remembered that the scrofulous diathesis may exist 

 in any horse, without regard to his conformation or temj)erament, 

 pir>vided he inherit, from either sire or dam, the requisite pre- 

 Ji>^]iosilion. 



The disease sometimes steals on in a slow and insidious man- 

 ucr, b. that it is not known to exist until, all at once, the animal 

 becomes lame, and, in the course of a few hours, his legs swell; 

 large inflammatory farcy -buds appear just as suddenly ; a stink- 

 ing discharge takes place from the nostrils, and, unless the animal 

 be destroyed, he soon dies. This form of farcy may, very prop- 

 erly, be denominated malignant farcy. When the disease mani- 

 fests itself ai'ter this fashion, it is dangerous for a person to handle 

 the subject. He should be destroyed and buried. 



A case of this kind occurred very recently in a large stable, 

 the facts of which are as follows: Tlie author was requested to 

 visit a bay gelding, of the nervous temperament, sujijwsed to be 

 ihe subject of a catarrhal affection. He did not show any very 

 marked symptoms of ill-healtli, except a slight discharge from 

 both nostrils. He had performed labor up to within a few hours 

 of the time of my visit, and had partaken of his usual amount of 

 food. This was toward evening. I directed the foreman to rub 

 the throat with stinuilating liniment. Two ounces of fluid extract 

 of resin weed were given him; his legs being cold, they were ban- 

 daged, and a warm bran-mash was placed before him. Next day 

 lie was a pitiable sight to behold. His limbs and other parts of 

 the body had become dropsical ; his face and eyelids had become 

 80 tumefied that the eyelids were almost totally closed, and scald- 

 ing tears ran profusely down his cheeks. In various parts of the 

 body the lympliatics were tumefied, presenting unmistakable farry- 

 buds. A stinking discharge ran from his nostrils, and he was so 

 lame that it was almost impossible to get him out of the stable. 

 The case being diagnosed as farcy, the animal was shot. 



Mr. Pekcivall alludes to the lameness and rapid tumefac- 

 tion in the following language: "I have known horses so lame 

 from farcy before the disease had, in any local or characteristic 

 form, declared itself, tliat shoes have been removed and feel 



