186 The Horse Farrier. 



phatic vessels, making its appearance in the foiin of 

 circular swellings, ternied farcy huds^ which terminate in 

 a discharge and ulceration. 



The causes of farcy exist in any thing that deranges 

 the lymphatie system; and probably the same causes 

 that operate, either by contagion or otherwise, to pro- 

 duce glanders, will produce farcy. " By inoculation, 

 farcy has been produced by the matter of glanders, and 

 glanders by the matter of farcy; and, consequently, 

 there is every reason to infer a similarity, or rather an 

 identity, in the virus of the two diseases ; one disease, 

 or form of disease, almost invariably temiinates in the 

 other, prior to dissolution. There can be no question 

 but that the same contaminated atmosphere of the stable 

 or elsewhere, which produces glanders, may occasion far- 

 cy, and vice versa. ''^ 



Symjytoms. — The horse is not in his usual spirits, ap- 

 pears dull and does not partake of food with his accus- 

 tomed reUsh. Some horse's pulse will be quicker than 

 natural, mouth hot, urine high-colored, &c. ; others are 

 suddenly attacked with a swollen leg. So sudden, shar|3, 

 and severe are attacks of farcv in some instances, that in 

 the course of one night, the horse's limb wUl be swollen 

 to a frightful size, so as to incapacitate him almost ft'om 

 turning in his stall and walking out of the stable. 



" Viewing the aftected limb from behind, we perceive 

 a fulness on the inside of the thigh, along the course of 

 the femoral vein ; and the application of our finger to 

 this will immediately detect a corded, nodous swelling, 

 which has been happily enough, m the sensation it con- 

 veys to our feel, compared to a ''cord with so raany knots 

 tied in it. ' This is at once evidence of the presence of 

 farcv. 



" Tracing the cord upward from its place of origin, 

 v>']iich commonly is above the hock, the hand is carried 

 into the groin, and there discovers a lobulated tumor, a 

 swelling of the inguinal glands, called a bubo; some- 

 times, however, the bubo does not make its appearance 

 until after the full developement of the cord." 



