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pened at first, and capable of being so produced at 

 the present day, the blood being overcharged with 

 offensive matters unfit for its proper purpose, it 

 becomes stagnated at the lymphatics which follow 

 the course of the veins (see book i. page 95), and 

 these corrode the parts, inflame, and appear on 

 the surface in the form of " buds." And we should 

 feel surprise if they do not also pervade the large 

 glands of the viscera, though we have had no op- 

 portunity of examining ; such tumours on the skin 

 of mankind have been found similarly seated on the 

 inner surfaces, on dissection. " ' I feel all over as 

 if pins were running into me,' observed a patient ; 

 and so, poor fellow, he might, for on dissection 

 I found the same sort of tumours even on the heart," 

 observed Mr. Abernethy, in one of his lectures ; 

 and we have reason for believing that the analogy 

 holds good regarding the horse. 



We conclude, a predisposition to farcy must exist 

 in the system, since it is only to be cured by means 

 of correctives of the blood ; and its connexion with 

 glanders has been proved, for the one will produce 

 the other by inoculation ; and, without it, a running 

 at the nose is likewise one of the symptoms of farcy. 

 A certain inability to perform its office, termed 

 " debility," that leaves the finer vessels filled with 

 the vital fluid, which exercise might have carried 

 off — is one main cause of farcy : and a sudden check 

 by cold after exercise stops at once the perspiration, 

 and the blood that would otherwise be taken up, 

 or absorbed into the circulation, remains in those 



