►82 FARCY IN ITS SECOND STAGE. [BOOK II. 



Alterative Balls. 



of each 3 drachms, 



Camphor, 



Emetic tartar, 



Asafcetida, 



Ginger, 



With mucilage sufficient to form three balls. Give 

 one of these for three successive nights ; then stop 

 one night between each dose, and go on until the 

 disease is removed. 



If these efforts to absorb the disease prove in- 

 sufficient to conquer it, recourse must be had to . 

 the use of mercury, as recommended for the third 

 or most virulent stage of the disease, which is also 

 the most common of the three. Meantime, we 

 come to consider of that partiular kind of farcy 

 which is the least common of all three ; and this 

 is wherein the tumours are larger than usually 

 happens, and smaller in number. The disease then 

 partakes very much of the nature of critical abscess 

 (page 314), and of the strangles (page 351); both 

 of which, the reader will perceive, are but the 

 efforts of nature to relieve itself of an accumulation 

 of offensive matter : and, this escaping, the cure is 

 effected. In this second kind, or stage of farcy, 

 nothing more is requisite than to promote suppu- 

 ration, as directed in the diseases just referred to, 

 and follow it with the physic prescribed for the 

 strangles. 



The third, most common and virulent kind of 

 farcy, that which comes on quickest, lasts the 



