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escape ; but a fresh quantity is speedily formed, and a new opera- 
tion rendered necessary. I have never employed the cautery; 
perhaps it might have been productive of good effect. As it is, 
I have never seen either ox or cow radically cured, whatever 
means had been employed. In certain cases the cords have 
seemed to disappear for a considerable time, and the tumours 
have diminished in volume ; but very often there have followed 
enlargements of the sublingual and inguinal glands, and which 
have degenerated into a scirrhous or encephaloid tissue. 
I have never known that this malady has given rise to any 
legal disputation ; for the appearances by which it is characterized 
are too evident, and there is neither proof nor suspicion of its 
being contagious. 
I will conclude by relating a case which lately occurred to me. 
A heifer, thirty months old, had been affected with d’ Arboulets 
for nearly a twelvemonth. I saw her in October 1835. She 
had, both on the inner and outer face of the cannon-bone, and on 
the left fore-arm, several hard cords, a little knotty and indolent. 
There was an enlargement, composed of several little agglome- 
rated tumours, on the knee on the same side. Two farcy cords 
took their origin from this enlargement, and ascended towards 
the fore-arm. There was little or no lameness. She was in very 
good condition, although she had been so long affected by the 
disease. Several empirics had been to see her, who had punc- 
tured the fluctuating cords, and had applied frictions and scari- 
fications to the enlargement of the knee. All these means had 
not prevented the slow increase of the swellings. Not willing to 
put the proprietor to new expense, which I was perfectly assured 
would be useless, I advised him to sell her, which he immedi- 
ately did. 
Rec. de Med. Vet., Fevrier 1837. 
FARCY IN CATTLE. 
By M. Mousis. 
Farcy is frequent in certain districts of France, and but rarely 
seen in others. It is far more rare in the south than in the north. 
This difference is occasioned by the difference of climate and of 
food, and the kind and degree of work. 
It is not of so serious a nature in cattle as in the horse ; for ru- 
minants are usually of a more phlegmatic temperament: the 
treatment will also be more simple. 
In the months of June and July, 1826, farcy declared itself in 
