460 DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT. 



over the whole nasal septum ; weakness and emaciation set in. The ulceration 

 in some cases extends to the cartilages, and even the bones are sometimes impli- 

 cated, when occasional bleedings ensue. Cough is troublesome ; farcy buds appear 

 in some cases over the body, and he dies a disgusting and loathsome spectacle. 



Farcy. — Farcy and glanders are essentially the same disease, and depending on 

 the same specific poison in the blood, fcut manifesting itself in a different locality. 

 It often occurs in connection with glanders, but is also seen independent of it, run- 

 ning into glanders as it progresses. 



Symptoms.— It usually affects the superficial absorbents of the hind limbs in the 

 groin, extending downward on the inside of the 

 thigh, following the line of the lymphatics, also along 

 the absorbents of the neck and shoulders ; little tu- 

 bercles, or farcy buds, form,, which in some cases be- 

 come indurated and lie dormant for a time, but in 

 most cases they go on to ulceration, producing angry, 

 irregular ulcers similar* to the ulceration in glanders ; 

 the virus being conveyed ' along the absorbents, the 

 buds extend in knots ; lines of corded and inflamed 

 absorbents are felt extending from below upward, 

 the hair being rough and bristling along their course ; 

 Fio. 794.— A Piece of Farcied bv and bv swelling of the legs sets in ; as it goes on 

 Skin. From Nlayhew. ne becomes emaciated ; the ulceration attacks the 



nostrils, and glanders and farcy are combined, and 

 death relieves him at last.* A disease called watery farcy must not be mistaken for 

 genuine farcy. 



As there is liable to be considerable difficulty experienced in 

 diagnosing glanders from common, running of the nose from cold, 

 strangles, or nasal gleet, I include the best description I can find of 

 the symptoms as they progress : — 



The earliest symptom is an increased discharge from the nostril, small in quan- 

 tity, constantly flowing, of a watery character and a little mucus mingling with it. 

 Connected with this is an error, too general, and highly mischievous, with regard to 

 the character of this discharge in its earliest stage of this disease, when the mischief 

 from contagion is most frequently produced. The discharge of glanders is not sticky 

 when it may be first recognized. It is an aqueous or mucous, but small and con- 

 stant, discharge, an'd is thus distinguished from catarrh or nasal gleet or any other 

 defluxion from the nostril. It should be impressed on the mind of every horseman 

 that this small and constant defluxion, overlooked by the groom and by the owner, 

 and too often by the veterinary surgeon, is a most suspicious circumstance. 



Dr. James Turner, an old English veterinary surgeon before referred to, deserves 

 much credit for having first or chiefly directed the attention of' horsemen to this im- 

 portant but disregarded symptom. If a horse is in the highest condition, yet has 

 this small aqueous constant discharge, and especially from one nostril, no time 

 should be lost in separating him from his companions. -f. 



* Fig. 794 is a very good illustration of a bad case of farcy photographed from life. 



f Mr. Turner, during his experiments, referred to a fine mare that had simply a slight run- 

 ning of mucus from one of the nostrils, which he pronounced glanders, and highly contageous. 



