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food of the horse is rarely deteriorated. During nine months 
these animals live on barley and chaff, and for the rest of the year 
on green clover. 
As long as they are fed on green meat, farcy seldom occurs : 
we have, nevertheless, seen it in some horses. During that season 
they are fat, but weak, and that weakness continues a longtime. 
The use of the green clover, continued for three whole months, 
and sometimes more, may it not contribute to the development 
of farcy ? We are not yet able to answer that question. 
The Egyptian horses that are used only for the saddle, they 
do not work in the water; their food is wholesome; they 
inhabit a warm climate, but farcy attacks and destroys them. 
In Syria it is common, but on the plains alone ; and it is said not 
to be found on the mountains of Lebanon. 
Among the Wahabites, on the borders of the Red Sea, and 
thirty-two days’ distance from Gedda, Dr. Gand has seen farcy 
on the horses that are kept at the foot of the mountains. The 
account which this estimable physician has given is extremely 
interesting. He shall speak for himself. 
‘‘The iS'ejdeSf horses which are found near Chignigues(Hedjaz), 
not only those that are found at the feet of the mountains, but 
those that inhabit the highest parts, and on some which, in 
point of elevation, may be compared with mount St. Gothard. 
The disease breaks out in summer, and disappears in winter. In 
the hot season, during the month of July, the thermometer, in 
the tent, rises to 44 degrees of Reaumur (131 of Fahrenheit). 
It long continues between 36 and 38 degrees (113 and 117 of 
Fahrenheit). At that period, which is the period of farcy, the 
horses of the plain are fed entirely on grasses, dry, hard, and of 
considerable bulk : the water is stagnant, often fetid—the animals 
sleep in the open air. 
During the winter the rains are incessant, and numerous 
torrents descend from the mountains. Then the grass is good 
and abundant; the water is wholesome, and the horses become 
fat. The mountains, the summits of which are most elevated, 
and covered with snow during the winter, are clothed with per¬ 
petual verdure; the plants which are cultivated there are the 
coffee and the doura.” 
We cannot think that “inflammatory irritations of the intes¬ 
tines” can here occasion farcy by their “sympathetic influence.” 
This assertion is founded on no fact—inflammations of the in¬ 
testines have their seat in the red capillary vessels; farcy in the 
lymphatic vessels and ganglions. Farcy eruptions are often 
thrown out without the animal having shewn the least symj)tom 
of inflammation of the digestive passages—the farcy disapj^ear- 
