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marked its progress when it extended to the interior of the nose, 
we should have recognized that which belonged to glanders, and 
that which was the product of farcy. We have no doubt, how¬ 
ever, that both diseases may exist at the same time in the same 
animal; but we may always distinguish that which belongs to the 
one and to the other, and w^e ought to consider their joint pre¬ 
sence only as a fortuitous complication. 
Farcy is always most difficult to cure when the mucous 
membranes are affected, and tumours develop themselves on 
the septum of the nose, which they perforate or render carious, 
like the chancres of glanders. That fact was known to the old 
veterinarians, and they announce it by saying that farcy is in¬ 
curable when it has degenerated into glanders. Ordinarily farcy 
develops itself without any ‘of the principal functions of the 
animal being disturbed. Medical men say that an eruption is 
generally preceded by febrile symptoms. In this disease in the 
horse no such complication exists. There are no precursor cha¬ 
racteristic symptoms. 
Farcy is sporadic, enzootic, and epizootic; prevailing often 
among great masses of animals, and extending over large spaces 
of country. We often see it commit sad ravages among our 
cavalry regiments. It shews itself all at once, and many animals 
are attacked at the same time. It makes rapid progress among those 
whom it has attacked, and destroys its victims in a space of time 
too short, but varied by an infinity of causes. It rages with equal 
violence in the country. It is a dreadful disease in Egypt, and 
the regiments of his Highness have it constantly among them. 
The infirmaries of the veterinary school always contain a great 
proportion of farcied horses; indeed, we can affirm without 
fear of contradiction, that the greater part of our sick horses are 
ill with farcy. Before the institution of the veterinery school, 
almost every animal attacked by it soon became for ever unfit 
for service. In Arabia it is confined to certain districts. Aban¬ 
doned by the owners and the attendants, the animals rarely 
recover, or, if there are some instances of the sudden disappear¬ 
ance of the farcy tumours, they aj)pear afresh after a greater or 
less period of time. The disease, until lately at least, has been 
considered as incurable in Egypt, but the Arabs regard it as 
susceptible of cure, if it has not been too long neglected. 
When farcy first develops itself in the extremities it is more 
obstinate, more serious, more to be feared than when it attacks 
any other part of the body; and we may almost despair of a 
favourable termination, if the testicles, the sheath, and the ex¬ 
tremities, are tumefied and engorged at the same time; and more 
especially may we fear if farcy buds arc developed on the globe 
of the eye, the cheeks, the li[)s, and the membrane of the nose. 
