FARCY IN EGYPT. 
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between it and the sensible parts beneath, and the hoof at 
length falls off. We have now under our care horses attacked 
with farcy on one or both legs, and confined to those parts, 
although the disease has been of long standing. 
When farcy attacks the eyes, it produces very considerable 
enlargements and infiltrations of the lids; and which terminate 
in covering the whole globe of the eye, and depriving the animal 
of sight. 
The mucous membranes are almost always pale—infiltrated ; 
the eyes weeping, and blear; the hair changes its colour—it 
falls from some parts of the body; the skin is always covered 
with scurf, which the comb raises with difficulty ; there is con¬ 
tinual itching, and the horse gnaws and blemishes himself in 
various parts. Many of the buds now become ulcerated; ex¬ 
crescences appear on different parts ; an infectious smell is 
perceived at a considerable distance. The respiration becomes 
difficult—loud; the matter which is secreted by the ulcers 
speedily dries up, and the horse is covered with scabs. Many 
horses continue to work without much pain or difficulty; they 
preserve their appetite—it even becomes voracious ; but not¬ 
withstanding this, they slowly, but constantly, lose condition. 
The discharge from the ulcers becomes more fetid—the urine 
thick and yellow—the respiration accelerated ; the emaciation 
is now more rapid, and the animal weaker; and at length he 
dies of marasmus. Some horses, however, live many years, 
covered with farcy ulcers. 
Farcy ranks among the diseases of the lymphatic system: it 
is inflammation of these vessels, the lymphatic ganglions, and 
the cellular tissue. It may be the consequence of intestinal irri¬ 
tation, and has been compared with scrofula and syphilis by 
modern veterinarians. 
On examination after death we find the farcy buds filled with 
thick white pus, or with a blood-coloured fluid, and thick yellow 
scabs cover the ulcers. Some of the ulcerations are confined to 
the superficial portion of the skin, attacking the bulbs of the 
hair ; others perforate the dermis : the skin is hard, thick, white, 
and difficult to cut; and there are often abscesses in the very 
substance of the dermis, where they form little pouches: other 
small abscesses are subcutaneous. The white parts of the limbs 
are thickened, and the skin there resembles that of a hog. There 
is little blood in the frame, and where the white colour prevails it has 
a remarkable appearance. Often there is an cfl'usion of a citron- 
coloured fluid, more or less abundant, under the skin. There are 
reservoirs of pus in the interstices of the muscles ; the lymphatic 
vessels are dilated—evidently so; the subcutaneous ganglions 
