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CHAP. XVIL 

 Of the FARCIN or FARCY- 



The farcy ^TT^ H E true farcy is properly a diflem- 

 defcribed. J_ per of the blood veirels, which 

 generally follows the track of the veins, 

 and when inveterate, thickens their coats 

 and integuments, fo that they become 

 like fo many cords. 1 fhall not defcribe 

 the different forts of farcies, feeing they 

 are only degrees of one and the fame 

 diftemper-, but proceed to paint the 

 didemper by its fymptoms, which are 

 pretty manifeft to the eye. 



Thefymp. At firft one or miOre fmall fwellings, 

 touis. or round buds like grapes or berries, 

 fpring out over the veins, and are often 

 exquilitely painful to the touch-, in the 

 beginning they are hard, but foon turn 

 into foft blifters, v/hich, when broke, 

 difcharge an oily or bloody ichor, and 

 turn into very foul and ill-di'pofed ulcers. 

 In fome horfes it appears on the head 

 only, in fome on the external jugular; 

 in others on the plate vein, and runs 

 downwards on the infidc of the fore- arm 



towards 



