Of the FARCIN or FARCY. i8r 



very fimple management*, and when it 

 arifes fuperficiaily upon the fmaller vef- 

 fels, it will often so off with moderate 

 labour v/ithout any other means than 

 bleeding. Such inflances as thefe may 

 eafily give a reputation to things of no 

 great efficacy, and bring them into 

 efteem-, but whoever has acquired any 

 true notion of the farcy, will know that 

 this diftemper is not to be conquered but 

 by fuch things as are fitly adapted to the 

 various fymptoms that occur in the diffe- 

 rent ftages of it. To avoid therefore the 

 perplexity that arifes from the various 

 complications fo ufual in the farcy, we 

 fhall confider it in its different dates, or 

 degrees, viz, when it feizes only the 

 fmaller vefltls; when the larger veins are 

 corded, and the it(tx^ paflerns, and 

 flanks affeded ; and laftly, when the 

 farcy, beginning on one fide only, breaks 

 out on the other alfo, and affects the 

 whole body. 



When the farcy makes its firft ap- xhe firft 

 pearance on the head, it rifes on the finge of 

 cheeks and temples, and looks like a net- the farcy. 

 work, or fmall creeping twigs full of 

 berries. Sometimes it inflames the eye, 

 and fometimes little bliflers or buds run 

 along the fide of the nofe. It arifes often 



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