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SKAT AND NATURE OF FARCY. 
disease the skin has manifestly borne the brunt. In cases, how- 
ever, of inveterate or malignant farcy, in which the deep-seated as 
well as the superficial order of lymphatics have taken on disease, 
we meet with farcy-buds and pustules, and occasionally with ab- 
scesses of large and irregular dimensions, situated among the 
muscles. 
Dupuy informs us he has met with “tubercles” (or farcy-buds) 
and farcy-pustules upon the mucous lining of the alimentary canal; 
and Leblanc, so far as having witnessed one case of the kind, 
confirms this account. On the same authorities also we may state 
that the liver, the spleen, and the testicles, have all been known to 
exhibit farcy. In the case of the disease of the mucous membrane , 
be it in the intestinal canal or any other situation, to be consistent 
in our pathology, we ought to call the disease glanders. 
In NATURE farcy is identical with glanders : they are, let it be 
repeated, one and the same disease seated in different tissues and 
localities of the body ; glanders being an affection of mucous tis- 
sue, seated in the head ; farcy one of dermoid tissue, appearing 
upon the limbs and body ; both originating in disease set up in 
the lymphatic system. 
Writers on Farriery, in general, have regarded farcy as a 
disease of the bloodvessels, of the veins in particular; and consi- 
dering that farcy cords take in general the same course which the 
superficial veins are seen to do, and that the knowledge these 
writers possessed of the lymphatic system amounted to little or 
nothing, we need not feel surprise at their running into so ve- 
nial an error. SoLLEYSELL informs us, that the farcin “ may 
easily be known by the knots and cords that run along the veins, 
and are spread over the whole body.” And he describes “ four 
kinds” of farcin, to which he says “ all the rest may be reduced;” 
and that “the second sort of farcin is accompanied with hard 
swellings, resembling ropes or strings, that run beneath the flesh 
and the skin, along the veins , especially those of the thigh, neck, 
brisket, and along the belly.” 
A century later than the time of Solleysell we find the best 
English veterinary author of his day, Gibson, a surgeon as well 
as veterinary surgeon, still affirming that “ the true farcy is pro- 
perly a distemper of the bloodvessels ,” notwithstanding he treats 
in the same work of the “ distribution” and “ use” of the lymphatic 
vessels. “ When inveterate,” he continues, “ (the farcy) thickens 
their (the veins’) coats, and common integuments, so as they be- 
come like so many cords, and these are larger or smaller in pro- 
portion to the size and capacity of the veins that are affected by 
it. It is seldom perceivable on the arteries, because of their con- 
tinual motion and pulsation,” &c. &c. 
