FARCY IN CATTLE. 
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der my care, I was compelled to have recourse to tracheotomy in 
two fillies. 
To these causes of disease may also be added the new hay 
and other food which we were compelled to give these animals, 
and whi^h produced much gastro-intestinal irritation, and, by 
sympathy, irritation on the skin. It is very common in every 
part of France for the use of too new hay to produce severe in- 
flammatory diseases, or cutaneous eruptions. 
Treatment . — Of all the cutaneous diseases which affect our 
larger quadrupeds, there is no one so formidable or so obstinate 
as farcy, especially when it has passed into a chronic state ; its 
treatment therefore must vary according to the intensity of the 
case. The early symptoms of this malady are too often neglected. 
The inflammatory and febrile state which necessarily precedes 
the development of the farcy-buttons, might probably have 
been combatted by a general bleeding. This measure alone 
might have sufficed to have arrested the progress of the malady; 
but the owner too often waits until the evil is fully developed 
before he has recourse to medical aid. Sometimes he even lets it 
run on to a chronic state. The veterinary surgeon himself too 
often adopts this waiting, expecting kind of practice. 
I found the method of cure sufficiently easy and satisfactory 
when the disease was promptly attended to. Venesection was 
always practised when the farcy eruption had begun to appear. 
Emollient lotions and cataplasms were applied to the tumours. As 
soon as they fairly pointed they were opened, and dressed with 
segyptiacum, and kept from the influence of the atmospheric air 
by pledgets of tow. At each dressing they were well washed 
with water acidulated with vinegar. When the hardness of the 
tumours did not permit me to. open them, I dressed them with a 
stimulating ointment, and they presently began to suppurate. 
Whatever was the degree of induration which they presented, 
they always contained pus in the centre. The animals were sup- 
plied with good and wholesome food — they usually had barley- 
meal in their water— their work was proportioned to their strength : 
all of them had walking exercise, and the wounds were dressed 
twice in the day. 
This treatment, which is simple enough, was successfully em- 
ployed on some horses and on two oxen that were attacked by this 
disease, in the month of July 1824. 
At this time, six oxen and four cows were radically cured in 
fifteen days. Two cows resisted these sanative measures two 
months, but at the expiration of that time they also were quite 
cured. All these animals were under my observation several 
years, and they continued perfectly sound. 
