THE HORSE, DISEASES OF THE NASAL GLANDS ETC. 305 



that are fat and full-blooded — the disease in this case being most 

 probably the result of infection. 



To enable one to distinguish it from those diseases for which it i» 

 sometimes mistaken, the following directions, if closely observed, will ba 

 sufficient : 



It differs from surfeit in this : that the buds are generally higher than 

 the surfeit tumors, more knotty, not so broad, and are found principally 

 on the inside of the limb and not on the outside. 



The sudden swellings of the legs, head, or chest are characterized by 

 heat and tenderness that do not accompany other enlargements ; and the 

 farcy may be distinguished from grease or swelled legs by this : that in 

 grease there is usually a peculiar tightness, glossiness, and redness of the 

 skin, with scurfiness, discharging cracks, and a singular spasmodic catch- 

 ing up of the leg. In farcy the swelling is more sudden — the leg that is 

 apparently sound at night is found in the morning swollen to an 

 enormous size. It is o^ang to a simultaneous inflammation of all the 

 absorbents of the limb ; but instead of the redness and glossiness of sui- 

 feit there will be burning heat without outward manifestation, and the 

 leg will be peculiarly tender, while the body will be generally feverish. 



It may be known from that local dropsy of the cellular membrane pro- 

 ducing an enlargement beneath the thorax called water-farcy, by simply 

 observing that in water-farcy there is general weakness unaccompanied 

 by inflammation. 



What to do — The treatment must of course be directed primarily to 

 the removal of the blood poison and to the restoring of the assimilative 

 powers of the digestive and circulating organs. It must be both general 

 and local ; as the vital functions are to be restored to their normal condi- 

 tion at the same time as the outward manifestations of the poison are 

 removed. The buds must be dispersed and the ulcers healed by active 

 external applications, since the powerful internal remedies must be more 

 or less inoperative while these receptacles of poisonous matter furnish a 

 constant supply to the absorbents, to be carried by the various organs of 

 circulation to all parts of the body. 



The first and most necessary thing to do is to exercise a wise discrin>- 

 ination as to the stage of the disease. If found to be in its incipiency^- 

 few buds ha\4ng appeared, and being slow to spread ; no foul discharge 

 from the nose ; no sudden swellings and violent heat — the foUowino- 

 treatment may be adopted with every hope of success : 



Pay particular attention to feeding, and to keeping the stable, (if nec- 

 essary to have the, animal confined), clean, dry, and comfortable. The 

 food should be easy of digestion, but nourishing, and especially of such 



