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FARCY IN THE OX. 
By M. Maillet. 
Although, during many years past, bovine pathology has 
considerably advanced, whether in describing certain affections 
that are peculiar to the ox, or common to all the domesticated 
ruminants, as gangrenous coryza, and diseases of the organs of 
rumination, or whether in relating the peculiarities which cer- 
tain diseases, more or less known in the horse, present in the ox, 
as diseases of the lungs, alteration of the blood, rheumatism, 8cc., 
it is not difficult to. perceive that there yet many chasms in the 
history of the diseases of cattle. Even the diseases which are 
most common and most serious in the horse, have been scarcely 
regarded, much less studied, in cattle, although they are of nearly 
as frequent occurrence, and for more reasons than one, ought 
not to be indifferent to the veterinary surgeon. 
Among these is farcy, known among the herdsmen of Lower 
Anjou, by the name of d’ Arboulets, and which shews itself often 
enough among the cattle of the country. It attacks indiscri- 
minately young animals, adults, and old ones, and takes on a 
chronic type in all of them. Confined almost entirely to the 
extremities, the farcy of cattle, instead of taking on the five 
forms which it assumes in the horse — extended enlargements, 
circumscribed tumours , abscesses , cords , and ulcers — assumes ex- 
clusively those of circumscribed tumours and cords, and, most 
commonly, the latter. These cords, always indolent, insensible, 
and somewhat hard, follow the course of the superficial veins of 
the limbs, particularly the inner face of the fore-arms and the 
legs, and occasionally, but very rarely, along the neck. They 
pursue their course as in the horse, to the neighbouring lympha- 
tic ganglions, which often are more or less engorged and indu- 
rated, but not painful. In some cases, along the course of these 
cords, which do not ordinarily exceed the size of a finger, there 
are circumscribed abscesses, but very frequently they become 
cedematous or fluctuating in a certain part of their extent : some- 
times the oedema is five or six inches in length. It is seldom that 
these abscesses burst, as in the horse; but if the tumours or cords 
are cut where they present any softness, a white matter may be 
squeezed out, inodorous, and of the consistence of bouillee, or, 
sometimes, of soft cheese. Scarcely any suppuration follows this 
operation, and the wound is healed in five or six days. New 
matter, however, is speedily formed, which again gives softness 
to the cord, and causes it to continue soft, until at length it is 
