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it affects bj large indurations, attended with heat 

 and tenderness. A mere dropsical accumulation 

 of water in the legs sometimes receives the name 

 of water farcy; but this has no connection what- 

 ever with the true disease in question: farcj is very 

 contagious, and is gained from either the matter of 

 farcy or from that of glanders. 



Treatment of farcy. — The distended lymphatics 

 or buds may often be traced to one sore, which 

 was the originally inoculated part, and in these ca- 

 ses the destruction of this sore, and that of all the 

 farcied buds, will frequently at once cure the dis- 

 ease, which is here purely local. But when the 

 disease has proceeded farther, the virus must be 

 destroyed through the medium of the stomach; 

 although even in these cases, the cure is rendered 

 more speedy and certain, destroying all the dis- 

 eased buds, by caustic or by cautery. Perhaps 

 no mode is better, than the dividing them with a 

 sharp firing irorr; or if deeper seated, by opening 

 each with a lancet, and touching the inner surface 

 with Icipia infernaJis. The various mineral acids 

 may any of thorn be tried as internal remedies with 

 confidence; never losing sight of the necessity of 

 watching their ( ffects narrowly, and as soon as any 

 derangement of the health appears, to desist from 

 their use; oxy muriate o'f quicksilver (corrosive 

 sublimate) may be given in daily doses of fifteen 

 grains; oxide of arsenic may also be given in sim- 

 ilar doses. The subacetat6 of copper (verdigris) 

 may also be tried, often with great advantage, in 

 doses of a drachm daily. It remains to say, that 

 whatever treatment is pursued will be rendered 

 doubly efficacious if green tbdder be procured, and 

 the horse be fed wholly on it ; provided the bowels 



