THE 
VETERINARIAN. 
VOL. XVIII, No. 207. MARCH 1845. New Series, No. 39. 
SEAT AND NATURE OF FARCY. 
By Mr. WILLIAM PerCIVALL, M.R.C.S., Veterinary Surgeon 
First Life Guards. 
FARCY may be said to have its seat in the skin, that of glanders 
being accounted to be the aerial membrane. In strict pathology, 
glanders and farcy together constitute one and the same disease of 
the lymphatic vessels and their glands : the disease originates in 
these vessels, and for a time confines itself to them ; in the course 
of its progress, however, it extends into the contiguous tissues, 
affecting in one case the cutis vera, in the other the mucous lining 
of the air-passages, and it is in these parts respectively that the 
phenomena of farcy and glanders are exhibited. No wonder, 
therefore, that the appearances in farcy — the local symptoms — 
should differ so much as they do from those of glanders, and that 
the buds and ulcerations of the one should be found, in the course 
of treatment, so much more manageable and more “ curable” than 
those of the other form of disease ; or that one disease should be 
so much more dangerous to the animal affected, as well as to horses 
(in health) around him, than the other. Inflammation in the cutis 
is a different disease from inflammation in a mucous membrane — 
productive of different consequences, and requiring a different 
(local) treatment : hence the apparently wide differences between 
two diseases essentially or in nature alike. 
In general, in dissecting farcied limbs or other parts, as soon as 
we have cut through the thickened and indurated skin, we appear 
to have bottomed the disease — to have reached its depth or pro- 
foundest seat : the subcutaneous tissue everywhere around is in- 
filtrated, apparently in a state of local dropsy, but of the farcinous 
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