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eoMtaminated, tlie disease often makes fearful 

 ravages atnong them before it quits; and it is 

 only after a period of several months exemption 

 from all disease of the kind, that a clean bill 

 of health can be rendered." 



FARCY. 



This I regard as an incipient stage of glanders, 

 or as a type of the same fatal malady, and is to a 

 certain extent curable. Experiments prove that 

 the virus from a farcied horse will produce 

 glanders by inoculation in a sound one, and that 

 ihe glandered matter will in like manner produce 

 farcy. There are two distinct varieties or stages 

 of farcy; one, which is called button farcy, ia 

 altogether superficial, being confined to the 

 lymphatic vessels of the skin, and readily yields 

 to medical treatment; the other variety makes 

 its appearance in the extremities, generally upon 

 the inside of the hind-legs, which become com- 

 pletely engorged ; but the swelling is very difi"er- 

 ent from the ligamentary thickening, or from 

 oedema, being very uneven or lumpy, excessively 

 tender, and painful to the touch. Small ab- 

 scesses are formed, which at first discharge a 

 healthy pus, but soon ulcerate, and discharge a 

 thin sanious matter. These abscesses first make 

 their appearance on the inside of the hind-legs, 

 and then on the fore ones in like manner ; the 

 neck and lips come next in turn, and they may 

 appear in all parts of the body, when glanders 

 will begin to manifest itself. 



