i8o Of the FARCIN or FARCY. 



limbs, it often becomes very uncertain 

 unlefs a timely (lop is put to it i for the 

 fwelling in thofe dependent parts gro\vs 

 fo excelTively large in fome conftitutions, 

 and the limbs fo much disfigured thereby 

 with foul fores and callous ulcerations, 

 that fuch a horfe is feldom fit for any 

 thing afterwards, but the meanefl drudg- 

 ery: but it is always a promifing fign, 

 wherever the farcy happens to be fituate, 

 if it fpreads no further. It is ufual to af- 

 fect only one fide at a time, but when it 

 paiTcs over to the other, it fhews great 

 malignancy, when it arifes on the fpines, 

 it is then for the moft part dangerous, 

 and is always more fo to horfes that are 

 fat and full of blood, than to thofe that 

 are in a more moderate cafe. When the 

 farcy is epidemical, as ibmetimes hap- 

 pens, it rifes on feveral parts of the body 

 at once^ forms r.afty foul ulcers, and 

 makes a profufe Tunning of green ifh 

 bloody matter from both noftrils j and 

 foon ends in a miferable rot. 



General From this defcription of the farcy, it 

 fpecifics will appear how greatly thofe may be 

 of little, difappointed, who depend on fome fingle 

 fpecific drink or ball for a certain cure; 

 for the fymptoms are fometimes fo fa- 

 vourable, that it is eafily conquered by a 



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