56 THE FARCY, 



Treatment of the Farcy. 



hip, its cure may easily be effected. The most 

 difficult symptoms attending this disease are, 

 when the veins on the inside of the thigh are cor- 

 roded, and set with buds, so as to affect the ker- 

 nels of the groin, and the cavernous body of the 

 yard. When this disease breaks out on these 

 parts, and the virus rapidly extends itself to both 

 thighs al once, so that the sores, or ulcers, become 

 malignant, and affect the whole body, without due 

 attention to a regular course of medicine, proper 

 feeding and exercise, the disorder may increase, 

 and end in an incurable glanders. The follow- 

 ing drink will be found of great use in every 

 stage of the disease, by its powerful effect in 

 checking its progress, unless it be of the most in*^ 

 veterate and obstinate kind, 



(RECIPE, No. 33,) 



Take — Tatty, prepared ; red tartar ; lapis calaminaris ; 

 of each one ounce, in fine powder ; 

 Alum, in powder, two ounces : 

 Mix, and give it in one quart of tanner's ooze, 

 or old urine. 



