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camphor one ounce, blue vitriol half an ounce, oil of aniseed 
or mint one ounce, soft soap sufficient to reduce the whole to a 
mass, which divide into twelve bolusses. 
The exercise should be particularly attended to, and must be 
regulated according to the strength of the animal and what he 
has been accustomed to. If in high condition, trotting exercise 
three or four miles twice a-day will be useful ; if poor and low, 
a shorter distance of walking exercise will suffice. 
This disease frequently terminates in what is called a chronic 
farcy, which is very favourable and very frequent in this country. 
The animal will perform his work and enjoy his health as usual, 
without any danger of communicating it by infection. The only 
remains will be a hardness about the parts that have been affected, 
conspicuous to the touch but scarcely perceptible to the eye. 
If, however, the disease should predominate (which I have 
never known in this country if treated as above), it will fre- 
quently terminate in glanders; but, as this is also frequently 
mistaken, I shall treat it as a separate disease: previous to 
which I shall describe a very common disease or complaint, 
known by the name of water-farcy, in opposition to the former, 
which is termed farcy-bud. 
The water-farcy generally pursues the same course as the 
former, making its first appearance in the course of the absorb- 
ents along the abdomen and down the thighs. 
1 have reason to believe that this disease is precisely the same 
as the former, as to remote causes, differing only, perhaps, in 
one effect. The lymphatics obstruct and rupture in the farcy- 
bud, while in the water-farcy a total debility prevails, and they 
are deprived of the power of taking up the deposited fluid : and 
an accumulation or partial dropsy ensues, which is observed in 
the tumours, which become of considerable extent, and contain a 
colourless fluid as in dropsy. 
This disease is removed by the same mode of treatment re- 
commended in the former, with this exception, that bleeding must 
on no account be permitted ; and if the animal is in condition, a 
brisk dose of physic may be substituted*, as aloes eight drachms, 
calomel one drachm and a half, oil of mint or aniseed thirty’drops, 
syrup or soft soap sufficient to form into a bolus. 
* I believe that sudden transitions in the climate may also produce this 
disease. By accounts I have received from a regiment of cavalry in Bengal, 
I am informed that the rainy season is generally accompanied by a dozen or 
more farcied subjects. Great inconvenience is also stated to arise from the 
innumerable flies attacking the sores ; but this, I should imagine, would be 
done away by covering the ulcers with the unguent recommended in the 
farcy-bud. 
