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FARCY. 



the farcy buds are more frequently on the inner side of the 

 hmb. In some cases, however, oedema or actual dropsy of 

 the Hmb does occur, dependent on the obstruction offered 

 to the passing of the absorbed serum : a horse thus affected 

 is often said to have water farcy, which is treated of in 

 another place as a distinct disease from true farcy. 



The infected lymphatic glands or luds will sometimes 

 also, instead of suppurating, take on a scirrhous induration, 

 and remain thus hardened for a long time ; but eventually 

 it happens that they either, by absorption, produce tuber- 

 cles and pulmonary vomicae ; or are translated to the nose ; 

 or end in a diseased thickening of large masses of the skin' 

 neck, withers, and croup. 



A variety of farcy remains to be noticed, which is usually 

 passed over by authors, and which is also one wherein the 

 poison is self- generated probably. It often puts on a chronic 

 protracted form, and shows itself by the affected horse be- 

 coming suddenly lame in one hmb, the tumefaction and heat 

 of which will recede and attack the other limb in the same 

 manner. In this way he may remain for months, with his 

 health very slightly affected ; at length, however, the disease 

 assumes a more marked character, some of the swellings 

 ulcerate, and glanders eventually closes the scene. Old 

 horses are more frequently the subject of farcy than younger 

 ones, which does not appear to be the case with sponta- 

 neous glanders. 



The causes of farcy, with the exception of contagion, are 

 of the same complexion with those of glanders, but are 

 more varied, and numerous. It is necessary, for the pro- 

 duction of farcy, that there be an actual application of 

 the matter at least to a bare surface; probably also it 

 requires either a mucous or an abraded surface. Long 

 continued grease will sometimes degenerate into it ; thus 

 showing us that the morbid poison is dependent on any 

 thing that weakens the constitution, for the filth and im- 

 purities that generate grease are likely in the end to pro- 

 duce glanders. Long continued canker will do the same : 

 in fact, whatever debilitates may occasion it, particularly 

 when combined with neglect in cleanliness and by living in 

 contaminated stables, which last is supposed to be capable 

 of producing farc}^ as it produces glanders. 



