FARCY IN CATTLE. 565 
'a very distinct manner, and with an epidemic character, in the 
cattle that were transporting the Spanish wool. 
June 12 th . — An ox was brought to me six months old, in good 
condition, but in which indolent swellings of the size of a large nut 
were seen on the right side of the neck. They were situated be- 
tween the muscles and the skin, and they were in the form of a 
chaplet. Other tumours were scattered here and there on differ- 
ent parts of the body. 
Two days afterwards a cow was brought aged five or six years, 
and in the same state of good condition. Within the last ten or 
twelve days a large tumour had formed on the forehead of that 
cow, of a considerable thickness, tender, covered with little but- 
tons, and which speedily degenerated into ulcers, insupportably 
foetid. 
On another cow, the tumours had been developed about five 
days. They were situated on the right side of the belly, and so 
deep that they could not be perceived unless touched by the fin- 
ger. 
Some days afterwards, two oxen and a cow were attacked. 
The swellings were chiefly on the head, but sometimes scattered 
over the whole of the body — they also varied considerably in size. 
With the exception of these tumours, the animals seemed to be 
in perfect health. Other animals were afterwards brought in 
precisely the same state. 
The causes to which I attributed the development of this af- 
fection, were the frequent suspension of perspiration occasioned 
by the inclemency of the weather, while at the same time the 
work was incessant and very severe. All the wool coming from 
Spain was conveyed from Ordos, on the Spanish frontier, to the 
first town in France by means of these cattle. They were con- 
tinually on the mountains, where the temperature varied every 
instant, and the most violent storms often unexpectedly overtook 
them while they were covered with perspiration. The storms in 
June and July 1826 were more than usually frequent on the 
mountains. The colts and fillies, from a year and a half to three 
years old, which were usually turned at this time of the year on 
the high pasture grounds, were all affected with strangles, ac- 
companied by violent and dangerous fevers. In two colts of two 
years and a half old, and four fillies and a mule of eighteen 
months, the strangles terminated in glanders, which ran its 
course with the greatest rapidity, especially in the mule. Other 
colts got free with a few farcy buds. 
Several of the horses were suffocated by an enormous swelling 
under the throat, and extending up to the parotids. They had 
received no medical assistance. Among those that were put un- 
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