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saphena, or foot veins. Fever medicine is indispensably ne- 
cessary at the commencement ; and it should be followed up with 
purgatives and bran poultices ; and, when they are removed, the 
inflamed parts should be kept wet with liquor ammoniae ace- 
tatis, and the legs bandaged. When the inflammation is sub- 
dued, diuretics may be exhibited ; and when the abscesses are 
matured, exit ought to be given to the matter with the lan- 
cet, and the wounds should be washed with the chloride of lime. 
They should also be dressed twice a-day with unguentum resino- 
sum spread upon tow, until the parts are properly digested, and 
afterwards with ceratum calaminae. Should the enlargement be- 
come chronic or scirrhous, take of hydriodate of potash 3j,lard Jj, 
rub them well together, and form an ointment, a little of which 
should be rubbed into the tumour night and morning. If this 
has not the desired effect, then blister. 
In most cases, the above mode of treatment will produce a 
cure. Should not that, however, be the case, I then pursue the 
same line of treatment as if I had true farcy to combat. If the 
constitution once becomes affected, the practitioner will have 
need of patience and perseverance ; and I am sure much anxiety 
will be his portion ; and, after all, he may lose his patient, and 
then, with some ignorant employers, and by means of the false 
insinuation of artful empirics, his reputation may suffer for a time. 
Let him, however, be assured, that the paths of duty and science 
will ultimately lead to honour and profit. 
The appearances usually to be observed on dissection are, in- 
flammation of the lungs, liver, and pericardium, and often with 
pus effused in the cellular tissue. 
This complaint may be distinguished from farcy by the more 
rapid obstruction of the lymphatics ; a swelling of a larger mag- 
nitude and much more painful, beginning at the groin, and 
descending ; and the pulse more accelerated. In farcy, the swelling 
proceeds upwards, “ the invariable course of the affection is to- 
wards the thoracic duct;” the engorgement is comparatively 
small; debility is always present, and the ulcers discharge 
purulent or thin sanious matter. 
