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FARCY IN THE HUMAN BEING. 
By M. VoGELI, M.V., Besarif07i. 
CASE I. 
In 1817, M. P— pricked his left hand in performing certain 
operations on a farcied horse destined for the surgical instruction 
of the school. The wound was immediately washed and bound 
up. On the same day the arm began to swell even as high as 
the axilla, and a red line could be traced along the inside of the 
arm and fore-arm. He was put under the care of Dr. Parrat, 
physician in ordinary to the school. A bubo formed in the axilla, 
as large as a pullet’s egg. It broke, and resisted every means to 
heal it. This induced M. P. to petition for leave to visit his 
home, and withdraw himself from the injurious influence of the 
fogs that prevail at Lyons during the winter. After an absence 
of nearly a year he returned quite well. 
CASE II. 
During the winter of 1828, M. Gardouneche, of Ussel, a 
strong and robust young man, twenty-one years of age, but too 
much addicted to the use of wine and spirituous liquors, pricked 
himself in the hollow of his hand. The wound would not heal, 
and the arm enlarged as high as the axilla, and continued in that 
state for a considerable time ; the ulcer in his hand slowly spread¬ 
ing. Other ulcers appeared on his knee, his lips, and in the 
fauces. He returned to his native roof, and there he died in 
September 1829. 
CASE III. 
About the same time, M. M—, of Nobs, accidentally inocu¬ 
lated himself while dissecting a farcied horse. The results were 
the same as in the first case. 
CASE IV. 
Peter Couderq, of Concon, in the same class with myself, 
twenty-two years old, of very irritable temperament, of herculean 
stature, and enjoying perfect health, had the charge of a horse 
sadly farcied. As he was puncturing one of the farcy buds, on 
the 11th December 1829, the horse suddenly started. Couderq 
quickly drew back the bistoury, that he might not wound the 
animal, and, in so doing, pricked his left thumb. As the acci¬ 
dents which I have already related had made us aware of the 
danger of these wounds, Couderq washed it with liquid am¬ 
monia in which chloride of lime had been dissolved. The wound 
