days, and then gradually subsides, but recurs at varying intervals. 

 A foul stable is frequently the cause of specific ophthalmia. 



Place the animal in a well drained and ventilated loose box and 

 exclude all light. Apply a blister of turpentine and ammonia 

 behind his ear ; administer a mild purgative, after the effects of 

 which have passed off give daily a ball containing a drachm of 

 iodide of iron, or sprinkle over a bran mash an ounce of arsenicalis 

 liquor ; keep the bowels open by giving a purgative (two drachms of 

 aloes) when constipation is present, and apply a bandage over the 

 eye, saturated with a solution of tincture of arnica and water — an 

 ounce of the former to a pint of the latter ; or bathe the eye twice 

 daily with a mixture of distilled water and Goulard's Extract, ad- 

 minister every night an ounce of liquor arsenicalis in a bran mash ; 

 allow no corn, but feed on green meat. 



The arsenite of potass is a good medicine to use as an alterative 

 in specific ophthalmia. 



FAECY. 



The following capital article on this nasty disease appeared 

 recently in the Field : — " Farcy is always readily detectable. The 

 first decided indication of farcy is the simultaneous appearance 

 upon the skin of a number of small soft tumours of the size 

 of a hazel nut, some of them being in the course of lymphatic 

 vessels, which, together with the glands, are generally enlarged. 

 The eruption of farcy buds generally commences on the part where 

 the swelling has been most marked. In the hind extremities the 

 fetlocks or hocks will suft'er, and in the fore limbs the eruptions may 

 exist from the fetlocks to the shoulders, extending along the lym- 

 phatic vessels to some of the glands. There will generally be 

 observed on the skin hard corded lines, which terminate on the hind 

 limbs in the groin, where the glands will be found to be tender and 

 swollen ; and in the fore limbs running to the inside of the elbow- 

 joint, where there will be similar glandular enlargements. The 

 farcy eruption, although most frequently developed upon the sur- 

 face of the skin of the extremities, is by no means confined to those 

 parts. In fact, when there exists in the system a predisposition to 

 the disease, very slight causes, such as a blow or trifling woimd, will 

 suffice to determine the eruption to the face, neck, or side of the 

 chest and the withers, in all of which situations it very often occurs. 

 After a short time the farcy buds burst and discharge a quantity of 

 matter, which varies in character from thick white pus to a thin 

 mixture of serous and purulent fluid streaked with blood. The 



