482 ALPHABETICAL SUMMARY. 
FALSE QUARTER. 
Cause.—Injury to the coronet, producing an absence of the secreting 
coronet of the crust from the hoof. 
Symptoms.—No lameness, but weakness of the foot. The soft horn 
of the lamine, being exposed, is apt to crack. Bleeding ensues. Some- 
times granulations sprout when the pain and the lameness are most 
acute. 
Treatment.—In cases of crack and granulations, treat as is advised 
for sandcrack. Put on a bar shoe, with a clip on each side of the false 
quarter. Pare down the edges of the crack, and ease off the point of 
bearing on the false quarter. A piece of gutta-percha, fastened over the 
false quarter, has done good. 
FARCY. 
Causes.—Excessive labor, poor food, and bad lodging operating upon 
old age. 
Symptoms.—It is at first inflammation of the superficial absorbents. 
Lumps appear on various parts. If these lumps are opened, healthy 
matter is released; but the place soon becomes a foul ulcer, from which 
bunches of fungoid granulations sprout. From the lumps may be traced 
little cords leading to other swellings. The appetite fails, or else it is 
voracious. Matter may be squeezed through the skin. Thirst is tor- 
turing. At length glanders breaks forth, and the animal dies. There 
is a smaller kind of farcy called button-farcy; the smaller sort is the 
more virulent of the two. 
Cure.—There is no known cure for the disease. 
FISTULOUS PAROTID DUCT. 
Causes.—Hay-seeds or other substances getting into the mouth of the 
duct during mastication. Stones being formed within the canal. The 
stable-fork in the hand of an intemperate groom. 
Symptoms —The duct greatly enlarges behind the obstacle, which, 
becoming swollen, prevents the secretion from entering the mouth. 
Great agony is occasioned by every mouthful masticated. The duct 
bursts, and a fistulous opening is established, through which the saliva 
jerks at each motion of the jaw. From the absence of a secretion im- 
portant to digestion, the flesh wastes, and the animal soon assumes a 
miserable appearance. 
