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ox THE RE-ABSORPTION OF PUS. 
loped itself in the evening; there was evident local pain, and 
swelling as high as the knee; six pounds of blood were abstract¬ 
ed, and the diet and the lotions were of a coolins: nature. 
During the two following days the pain seemed to abate, but 
the engorgement remained. Continue the treatment. 
Uth .—‘Some pus escaped from the wound. It was yellow, 
sero-grumous, and had an offensive odour. The swelling of the 
knee continued; much less heat and pain. Simple digestive 
ointment to the wound, and frictions of camphorated spirit over 
the swelling. 
\Qth. —Morning. Granulations begin to appear; the suppu¬ 
ration is abundant, but it is limpid and foetid. Eleven o’clock : 
Evident symptoms of fever. Take six pounds of blood from the 
right arm. This bleeding produced some remission of the symp¬ 
toms, but the engorgement now extends up the right arm. 
V/th ,—I now recognized a painful enlargement, elongated, ex¬ 
tending from the protuberance formed by the sterno-humeral 
muscle (pectoralis transversus), and going round the internal face 
of the fore arm to the subcutaneous thoracic vein on the same 
side. On the right side of the neck, and at its base, there was 
developed, and already softened, a large button, with a knotty 
cord continued from it fifteen inches in length. IVeither the 
button nor the cord existed on the preceding night. The pus is 
abundant, unmixed, and yellow, and the wound is of a pale colour. 
The swelling has not diminished. 
The horse has acute farcy. 
Every attention was paid to the horse during several following 
days. The wound and the pus retained the same characters; but 
the left leg began to swell in its turn, and a farcy button deve¬ 
loped itself on that leg, and softened and suppurated in.the space 
of seven hours. A cord then appeared on the ala of the right 
nostril: there were ganglions beneath the jaw, which increased; 
a button, of the size of a small nut, appeared on the septum of 
the nose, the membrane of which was of a deep yellowish red 
colour. Discharge then commenced from the left nostril: the 
fluid that was thus discharged, as well as that which came from 
the different buttons, whether they opened spontaneously or were 
lanced, had the colour and consistence of that which proceeded 
from the wound of the tendon. Acute glanders was established. 
Seven or eight cords now appeared on the right arm, following 
the course of the lymphatics, and which w^ere decisive indications 
of farcy. Finally, tumefaction of the hind limbs followed, and 
increased enlargement of the fore ones, on the skin of which little 
tumours began to form in great numbers : they broke, and a fluid 
