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ther confined to, one of the hind legs ; at other times 

 the head and the muzzle are first affected ; there is then 

 swelling of the lips, and a discharge of an offensive 

 matter from the nostrils. The characters which it 

 assumes are various, and often puzzling ; but during 

 the whole course of the disease, the horse is hide- 

 bound, and is losing flesh or strength ; he ultimately 

 dies a mass of corruption. 



Farcy is, like glanders, contagious. It usually runs 

 its course more speedily than glanders, although some- 

 times, like that malady, it may lurk long in the frame 

 before it produces its destructive effects. It is nearly 

 always present during the latest stages of glanders ; 

 and it is essentially the same disease, but under a dif- 

 ferent form. 



Although it is thus identified with glanders, it is 

 somewhat more manageable than that complaint. 

 There are very many cases of the apparent recovery 

 of the farcied horse, and not a few in which the disease 

 has been permanently eradicated ; but it is only when 

 it is confined to the corded absorbents, or superficial 

 ulcers, that it admits of cure : when the body generally 

 is involved, or the constitution is implicated, the case is 

 as hopeless as that of confirmed glanders. 



The treatment is both local and constitutional. The 

 first consists in the dispersion or destruction of the 

 farcy-buds, and the healing of the farcy-ulcer. The 

 method of procedure in order to accomplish this is 

 simple enough. The tumours must be opened and the 

 pus which they contain evacuated. They should be 

 freely divided with a knife, and then the budding-iron, 

 at a black heat, applied to the internal surface. 



