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FARCY IN THE HUMAN BEING. 
described with singular exactness. This delirium, and the subject 
which occupied his mind, threw new and unexpected light on his 
case. The idea of farcy immediately presented itself to us, and 
we communicated our fears to Dr. Perrat and the inspector 
Bonnefoy, but who at first strenuously opposed our opinion. 
On the 24th the delirium subsided; and about two o’clock in 
the afternoon Couderq asked me for a mirror. I gave him one; 
and, after having attentively gazed on his own countenance, he 
said, as he returned the glass to me, It is astonishing! I 
thought that 1 had something on my left jaw : I felt a tickling 
as if some insect was crawling over it.” During the rest of the 
day he frequently felt his left jaw, with an expression of pleasure 
on his countenance. He was calm during the night, and slept 
a little. 
On the 25th, at six o’clock in the morning, the delirium re¬ 
turned. The itching of the jaw was become insupportable, and 
a slight redness began to appear. Couderq was continually lift¬ 
ing his hand to it. At nine o’clock the red spot had become a 
hideous ulcer, as large as a five centime piece, bleeding, and 
with its edges reversed and prominent: its surface was irregular, 
and scattered over it were little portions of muscular fibre, which 
had been broken in the bursting of the tumour. 
The sudden appearance of this farcy bud, and which formed 
itself into an abscess so quickly and so hideously, confirmed our 
fears, and inspired the inhabitants of the infirmary with such 
terror, that five out of the seven which it contained immediately 
quitted it,either to return to their own lodgings, or to some other 
temporary abode. 1 alone remained; for, whatever might be my 
fears, I could not bring myself to abandon my companion. The 
delirium ceased in the course of the same day. Couderq then 
complained of pains all over him. Other buds appeared on his 
eyelids, his arm-pits, the bending of the elbows, and the back of 
the hands. The delirium returned at night, and only quitted 
him afterwards at rare and short intervals. 
The farcy buds had caused the eyelids to swell, and they were 
quite closed; they were about a line in diameter—on other parts 
they were twice or four times as large. They were all prominent 
in the centre, and surrounded by a large red areola; and they 
quickly suppurated and discharged a white sanious or purulent 
fetid matter. 
26^//.—The arm, the fore arm, the lips, the alae of the nostrils, 
the inside of the mouth, the neck, the chest, the groins, the pre¬ 
puce, the glans, the inside and the outside of the thighs, the 
bending of the knee, the calves of the legs, and the upper surface 
of the feet, were covered with buttons irregularly scattered—some¬ 
times in groups, varying in their numbers, sometimes isolated. 
