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liad two farcy buds on the right hind leg. This fact proves 
nothino'. Would not the horse liave become farcied without this 
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inoculation ? If the disease were really contagious, there is no 
country where it ought to spread itself more rapidly than in 
Egypt. x41most every horse would be attacked by it; for there 
is, both arnons: the Turks and the Arabs, an absolute carelessness 
and indifference as to the mingling of farcied and sound horses. 
In none of the regiments are the sick horses separated from the 
healthy ones, until they are become incapable of service. The 
same soldier feeds at the same time the sound horses and the 
farcied ones, and they eat and drink together. The clothing, 
the saddles, and the bridles, pass from one horse to another; 
and yet the number of the diseased animals does not increase. 
Nevertheless, we have met with some Arabs who believed that 
farcy was contagious. 
Can farcy be transmitted from the sire to the offspring? We 
think not; yet some very experienced practitioners have adopted a 
contrary opinion. 
In order to ansv/er that question in a satisfactory manner, it 
would be necessary to institute a great number of experiments; 
these experiments, however, must be made in localities and 
under conditions that are perpetually changing. Should we 
conclude in favour of the hereditary character of the disease 
when a colt from a farcied sire became farcied, when he was 
placed in the same circumstances and exposed to the same in¬ 
fluences as the sire ? If certain circumstances appertaining to 
the climate or country can produce farcy in the one, how can 
we conclude that it is hereditary in the other? We do, however, 
believe that a disposition to be affected by the disease may be 
communicated by the parent to the offspring, on account of the 
great development of the lymphatic system, and its predo¬ 
minance over the other systems. 
M. Ilurtrel D’Arboval, faithful to his theory, of which we have 
spoken when treating of the causes of farcy, has recommended 
a plan of treatment quite in conformity with this opinion. Farcy, 
according to him, arising from the influence of ill-managed and 
unwholesome stables, the working in water, and the living in 
damp situations, and a faulty mode of feeding—it naturally 
follows, that different localities, and a better regimen, ought 
first to engage the attention as preservative means; hence, in 
his estimation, the advantage of pure, dry air, removal from wet, 
marshy situations and stagnant waters, and the good effect of 
large wcll-ventiluted stables, wholesome food, and good water. 
These things are altogether insuflicient. Saddle-horses of a 
light form, well fed, and in good condition—they are kept in 
