230 DICTIONARY OF THE VETERINARY ART. 



Palling of the Yard or Penis. This disease sometimes 

 happens to horses and bulls, in consequence of swelling, ex- 

 crescence, and ulceration of the parts, sometimes of an obsti- 

 nate or malignant nature. It may also be occasioned by too 

 frequent sexual intercourse. It may also depend on weakness 

 of the part ; and when this is the case, there is no ulceration 

 nor excrescence about it. If it depend on debility, then tone 

 up the whole animal, and wash the parts, first with Castile 

 soap, then with cold water. If it result from ulceration, wash 

 with weak vinegar and water, afterwards with a mixture of 

 powdered charcoal and water. The latter may be thrown up 

 the sheath with a common syringe or injection pipe. When 

 the ulcers show a disposition to heal, a little powdered bay- 

 berry bark will generally complete the cure. When excres- 

 cences form on the sheath or inside of it, they should be taken 

 off by applying a ligature tight around their base. 



Farcy. A disease of the lymphatics or absorbent vessels, 

 Its most usual form is that of small tumors, or buds, as they 

 are termed, which make their appearance in different parts of 

 the surface, gradually become soft, or suppurate, and burst, 

 and become a foul ulcer. Its cause may be found in any 

 thing that will derange the general system, or produce debil- 

 ity ; its proximate cause is immoderate work, inattention to 

 diet, hot unhealthy stables, sudden changes of temperature, 

 standing on filthy litter, &c. 



Fattening. (See part first* ) 



Fauces. That part of the throat which lies behind the tongue. 



Feeding. (See part first.) 



Femoral Artery. The principal artery of the thigh. 



Femur, or Os Femoris. The thigh bone. 



Fetlock. A lock of hair at the lower part of the fore and 

 hind legs. 



Fetlock Joint. (See Foot, part first.) 



Fever is a powerful effort of the vital principle to remove 



