108 FARCY. 



thus diseased, a ball, every night for a week, com- 

 posed of twenty-five grains of calomel, a quarter of an 

 ounce of powdered fennel seed, a small quantity of 

 syrup of any kind, and as much crumb of loaf bread 

 as will make a ball about the size of an English 

 walnut; all buds or ulcers should be washed clean in 

 blue-stone water, after which they should be well 

 rubbed around with mercurial ointment once a day ; a 

 narrow pitch plaster should be laid on at the joining of 

 the head and neck, in the direction of the throat latch, 

 for the purpose of taking off the hair, which will happen 

 in two or three days; after which, a lump of mercu- 

 rial ointment, about the size of a hickory nut, must be 

 rubbed on the naked part, amongst the large glands of 

 the throat, until it is entirely absorbed, every night 

 and morning, until the expiration of the week ; added 

 to which, the treatment generally may be the same as 

 before recommended in the more simple stage of the 

 farcy, with these exceptions ; — the drink should never 

 be cold, but the air taken off, or milk warm ; the 

 mashes without sulphur, during the week the balls are 

 given, as the sulphur counteracts the eifects of the 

 calomel and ointment; he should not be bled, and 

 great care should be used to prevent his getting wet, 

 and catching cold in any way while under the course 

 of physic. 



At the expiration of the first week, stop with the 

 balls and ointment for a week, adding sulphur to the 

 mashes, as directed in the first stage of farcy. At 

 the expiration of the second week, stop with the sulphur, 

 and again commence with the balls and ointment. Go 

 on in this manner, continuing to change the medicine 

 each week, until the cure is performed. 



