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No. 179. Sulphate of copper, 1 drachm. 



Arsenic, 8 grains. 



Mix with linseed meal and syrup to a ball. 



No. 180. Sulphate of copper, 1 drachm. 



Corrosive sublimate, 8 grains. 



Mix as above for a dose. 



No. 181. Syrup of the iodide of iron, J oz. 



To be given twice a day. 



This latter is certainly effectual in curing many obstinate 

 nasal gleets which have been called glauders. 



\Yhatever medicine is used, a full and nutritious diet, 

 moderate work, and a clean, well aired stable, with thorough 

 disinfection are all indispensable to success. 



FAKCY— BUD FARCY— BUTTON FARCY. 



Definition. — A contagious and malignant disease, charac- 

 terized by swelling and ulceration of the lymphatic glands 

 beneath the skin, and believed to arise from the same blood 

 poison which causes glanders. 



Causes. — The most common cause is direct inoculation of 

 glanders or farcy poison ; but the infection may also be pro- 

 pagated through the air ; and the disease may appear spon- 

 taneously after exhausting disease or in old age. It is con- 

 sidered certain that the same poison produces both glanders 

 and farcy, and that the only difference in the diseases is in 

 the part of the system attacked. 



Symptoms. — Farcy, like glanders, is divided into an acute 

 and chronic form. 



In acute farcy the early signs are shiverings, fever, loss of 

 appetite and swelling of the legs. The whole limb becomes 

 enlarged, resembling that in weed (p. 157), but presenting 

 an uneven surface, increasing and decreasing suddenly, and 

 attended with pain and lameness. When the swelling lessens, 

 the enlarged glands can be felt under the skin forming cords 



