ON THE RE-ABSORPTION OF PUS, 
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2d, That if the absorption of pus could not be demonstrated 
by its existence in its proper form in the blood, it was because it 
was minoled with that fluid in a manner so intimate as not to be 
distinguished from it; but that, nevertheless, 
3d, It impressed on the blood with which it was mingled 
new qualities and properties easily appreciable; and which, if 
they were not actual proofs of the absorption of pus, rendered it 
very probable. 
4th, That these proofs acquired new force when the animal 
presented, during the suppurative course, certain additional phe¬ 
nomena (epiphenomenes), as cough, beating of the heart, See., 
which are not ordinarily remarked while suppuration is going 
forward; and especially when, after death, we meet, in certain 
organs, with little purulent masses, with or without ecchymoses, 
and deposited in the substance of a tissue generally in a sound 
state; and proving, at once, that that tissue could not have 
secreted the pus, and that it could not have been long in con¬ 
tact with it. 
In the present article I shall endeavour to prove (and here the 
demonstration will be more rigorous) that, in the horse, the ab¬ 
sorption of pus often takes place by means of the lymphatic ves¬ 
sels, and gives rise to a well-known variety of that disease so 
common and so fatal, Farcy. 
It being my object, in this article, to exhibit farcy in relation 
with the absorption of pus, I shall pass rapidly over the symp¬ 
toms and treatment of the various cases. 
CASE I. 
A cabriolet gelding, ten years old. 
Inquiries .—He was brought to the infirmary on account of 
lameness in the right fore leg. Independently of this, the owner 
said that he had had him two years ; that he W'as at first very 
much out of condition, and had been long in regaining it; and 
that, although he was now better in that respect, he coughed, and 
discharged from the nostril whenever he was worked hard. 
Present Stale .—He knuckled in the fetlock of the lame leg, 
and the perforans tendon was much retracted. Seeing no other 
cause of lameness, a division of the tendon was recommended, 
to which the owner consented. 
Dec. 11///, J833.—After having, during some preceding days, 
been prepared for the operation, he was cast, and the tendons 
divided without the slightest accident. Two sutures confined 
the edges of the wound ; three pledgets covered it, and were con¬ 
fined by several turns of bandage. Some degree of fever deve- 
