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the skin, and does not readily yield to medical treatment. Suck 
horses are noticed as belonging to the nervous temperament, hav- 
ing thin, spare muscles, wiry neck and limbs, very quick and 
active in their movements, and having a very narrow chest. Yet 
it should be remembered that the scrofulous diathesis may exist 
in any horse, without regard to his conformation or temperament, 
provided he inherit, from either sire or dam, the requisite pre- 
disposition. 
The disease sometimes steals on in a slow and insidious man- 
ner, 5: that it is not known to exist until, all at once, the animal 
becomes lame, and, in the course of a few hours, his legs swell; 
large inflammatory farcy-buds appear just as suddenly; a stink- 
ing discharge takes place from the nostrils, and, unless the animal 
be destroyed, he soon dies. This form of farecy may, very prop- 
erly, be denominated malignant farey. When the disease mani- 
fests itself after this fashion, it is dangerous for a person to handle 
the subject. He should be destroyed and buried. 
A case of this kind occurred very recently in a large stable, 
the facts of which are as follows: The author was requested to 
visit a bay gelding, of the nervous temperament, supposed to be 
the subject of a catarrhal affection. He did not show any very 
marked symptoms of ill-health, except a slight discharge from 
both nostrils. He had performed labor up to within a few hours 
of the time of my visit, and had partaken of his usual amount of 
food, This was toward evening. I directed the foreman to rub 
the throat with stimulating liniment. Two ounces of fluid extract 
of resin weed were given him; his legs being cold, they were ban- 
daged, and a warm bran-mash was placed before him. Next day 
ne was a pitiable sight to behold. His limbs and other parts of 
the body had become dropsical; his face and eyelids had become 
so tumefied that the eyelids were almost totally closed, and scald- 
ing tears ran profusely down his cheeks. In various parts of the 
body the lymphatics were tumefied, presenting unmistakable farcy- 
buds. A stinking discharge ran from his nostrils, and he was se 
lame that it was almost impossible to get him out of the stable. 
The case being diagnosed as farcy, the animal was shot. 
Mr. Percrvaut alludes to the lameness and rapid tumefac- 
tion in the following language: “I have known horses so lame 
from farcy before the disease had, in any local or characteristic 
form. declared itself, that shoes have been removed and feet 
