CHAP. III.] FARCY BUDS, CAUTERISED. 385 



actual cautery to the farcy buds, in the last page, we 

 do but follow the common practice ; being alto- 

 gether the safest means in ordinary hands, who 

 apply fire in many other cases, with much less rea- 

 son than is done in that of farcy. Butter of anti- 

 mony, or sulphate of copper, effects the same end, 

 and has the recommendation of being used exclu- 

 sively by eminent French veterinarians. What La 

 Fosse says on this point is emphatic, and shows 

 his opinion of the predisposing cause of farcy : 

 " Do not apply fire in any manner to lumps pro- 

 duced by farcy, under an idea of stopping the dis- 

 order. The disease being in the blood, treat it ac- 

 cordingly, and as for the lumps, cut them off: 

 apply blue stone, dissolved in water." When he 

 forefends the " idea of stopping the disorder," 

 doubtless in saying this he only allows that to be 

 the true farcy, which we have considered as the 

 third stage, or confirmed kind. But the earlier or 

 milder stages, which would ultimately end in the 

 third or most virulent kind, if not stopped, being 

 occasioned by the cessation of the lymphatic func- 

 tion — when the attendant glands refuse to commu- 

 nicate with the system (the blood), cannot have yet 

 carried the consequence of that stoppage into the 

 blood. In making this remark, we have not over- 

 looked what was said of the practice in Morocco at 

 a preceding page, 364, note, 



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