CH. III.] FARCY, ENGENDERED OR ACQUIRED. 377 



from a diseased horse." The only question would 

 be, " was this the real glanders" or was the disease 

 of such long continuance as to have devolved into 

 putrid fever ? One type of putrid fever is swelling 

 of the glands ; and as we had already stated (page 

 202) " is communicable to man as well as beast:" 

 the left hand of that which now holds this pen, in- 

 curred the disease by absorption, in 1820, oc- 

 casioning an enlargement on the first joints of the 

 first and second fingers, and a swelling of the 

 right submaxillary gland, neither of which have 

 been reduced completely, up to June 1829. 



FARCY. 



Cause. — General ill state of the blood, vulgarly, 

 but most appropriately, termed, " corruption of 

 all the humours of the body ;" and, by prevalence 

 of the farcy-buds in the course that the veins run, 

 all over the surface of the body, no doubt can exist 

 that it resides in the blood. In fine, the original 

 cause has been already defined at the head of this 

 class of diseases, to which the reader who is fond 

 of research would do well to turn back for a few 

 minutes, at page 347, &c. However, infection is 

 frequently the immediate cause, and (as observed of 

 the glanders) the animal will be afflicted more or 

 less severely as his constitutional health may be 

 sound or otherwise at the time of receiving the 

 infection. When this disease is engendered or 

 created — which is easily supposed to have hap- 



