THE FARCY. ih 



Description and Symptoms of the Farcy. 



The farcy is a sharp, corrosive, watery tumour, 

 conveyed to different parts of the body by th6 

 blood, and attended with inflamniation. It ap- 

 pears like round buds, or berries, springing out 

 over the veins, which are first hard, but soon turn 

 to soft blisters ; when broken they discharge an 

 oily bloody matter, and often turn into obstinate 

 and malignant ulcers. In some horses it shews 

 itself on the head only ; in others, on the external 

 Jugular, or neck vein ; in others, on the plate vein, 

 and runs down the inside of the fore-leg (com- 

 monly called the fore-arm) towards the knee, and 

 often upwards to -the brisket; in some it shews 

 itself on the hind parts, about the pasterns, and 

 along the large veins on the inside of the thigh, 

 rising upwards into the groin, and towards the 

 sheath; sometimes it. appears on the flanks, and 

 spreads by degrees towards the lower belly. 



When the farcy appears on the smallbranches 

 .of the blood- vessels about the forehead) cheeks, 

 outside of the shoulders, near the withers, or the 



