984 FARCY. 
conclusion. The appetite often fails; sometimes it becomes voracious. 
The matter is, by pressure, to be squeezed through the skin. The thirst 
becomes torturing; the horse will cry for water. All it drinks, however, 
passes quickly through the body, and the desire for fluid cannot be satis- 
fied. At last—as though to prove the correctness of our opinion con- 
cerning the constitutional nature of farcy—glanders breaks forth. 
Glanders and farey seem to be the same disease, modified by certain 
circumstances to which the animal is exposed. Thus a horse, inoculated 
with the matter of glanders, may become farcied ; or an animal, infected 
with the taint of farcy, may exhibit glanders. These results, together 
with the fact of a glandered horse displaying farcy prior to death, and 
of a farcied animal exhibiting glanders previous to decease, are pretty 
conclusive evidence. 
Farcy is of two kinds, the large and the small. The large may appear 
as one or more abscesses. Generally it is dis- 
posed to select, in the first instance, those places 
where the skin is thin and the hair all but ab- 
sent. It breaks, and becomes shallow ulcers, 
which, however, may heal upon the application 
of any escharotic. The abscesses are not, in 
every instance, of one absolute figure. They 
vary in such respect, and have a tendency, if 
neglected, to generate large ulcers, from which 
spring unsightly bunches of fungoid granulations. 
The smaller description of this disorder has 
no preference for any particular locality. It 
appears, like surfeit, in small lumps all over the 
yancy ow tHe iveme or mae DOUY: These lumps, from their size and uni- 
wonse’s muGH Ware tHe sev formity, have been likened to buttons—hence 
ABSENT. the term “button farcy.” Cords soon connect 
them; they maturate and burst, like the larger sort. The “button 
seme ara! farcy,” however, leaves a deeper and a more 
si painful ulcer. It yields less readily to 
treatment, and seems to exhibit itself be- 
fore the body is utterly exhausted. 
How very numerous the absorbents of 
the skin are, may be conjectured from the 
subjoined engraving of a prepared speci- 
men—and not a very successful one either 
MOnaOn —of a piece of farcied skin, when deprived 
‘A PORTION OF SKIN, TAKEN FROM A of hair. In this case, the animal suffered 
MeacuRes under the large or common form of the 
