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place "which may increase and subside alternately for a time, but suddenly 

 a number of distinct swellings or nodules will appear, termed " farcy 

 buds." Fig. 136. 



These specific tubercles, so characteristic of farcy in either its acute 

 or chronic form, are situated in the cutis, or the subcutaneous connective 

 tissue; or they may penetrate deeper, affecting the muscles. Individually 

 they vary in size from a pea to a hazel-nut. 



In a few days central softening, and disintegration, with rupture of 



Fig. 136. 

 Farcy buds. 



skin, take place in these individually. The openings or sores thus formed, 

 now known as farcy ulcers, are deej), angry looking, with rounded ragged 

 edges; they are disposed to extend and discharge a foul, grayish-white 

 creamy liquid tinged with blood. These buds, or nodules, are often de- 

 veloped in groups clustered over a limited space, and the ulcerative pro- 

 cess proceeding with much rapidity from each centre, shortly converts 

 two or more of the original chancres into one large, many-pitted, irregu- 

 lar-margined ulcer. 



The discharge from these sores is very abundant; and, although 

 mostly distributed over the adjacent surface, does in some cases, and to 

 a limited extent, collect and harden in brownish crusts around the open- 

 ings of the sores. 



In addition to the existence of these buds, or ulcerating sores, we 

 have also a characteristic prominent, projecting, or corded condition of 

 the lymphatics. The inflammation of these vessels may take place coin- 

 cident with the appearance of the nodes, and previous to their suppura- 

 tion; or it may not be obvious until the open suppurating sore has been 

 established. These vessels, when thus affected, seem and feel full and 

 hard, as well as being painful to the touch — in these respects resembling 

 the nodules and infiltrations. Not unfrequentlythe termination of acute 



