ON THE RE-ABSORPTION OF PUS. 25,‘^ 
lient treatment; when on the 15th day, a farcy cord appeared in 
its neighbourhood. The cord soon acquired several little nodes 
along it—the legs began to swell—and the strength of the horse 
seemed to waste. The tumour was opened, and a considerable 
quantity of thick yellow pus, mingled with bloody striae es¬ 
caped, and the cautery was applied over the inner surface of 
the abscess. The buttons on the cord w^re also scarified and 
cauterized. 
The horse remained in the hospital a month, and then was 
taken aw’ay; the farcy cord had disappeared, and nothing re¬ 
mained but two or three small buttons surrounding a hardened 
kernel of cellular tissue which occupied the place where the 
incision into the abscess had been made. The horse was after¬ 
wards lost sight of. 
CASE VI. 
An entire horse had a tumour on the point of the shoulder, 
occasioned by the pressure of the collar. After various foment¬ 
ations by the owner, the tenderness and heat had in a great 
measure disappeared, and the tumour had become hard, but had 
not diminished in size. A sharp-pointed iron was plunged into 
various parts of it, and through its whole depth. Three 
weeks afterwards the wounds had nearly healed, and the tumour 
had disappeared, except one hard button, a little softened to¬ 
wards its centre, and from which a hard cord extended towards 
the chest. This was cauterized with the budding-iron. 
On examining the horse more closely on the following morn¬ 
ing, a considerable number of small buttons were found on 
various parts of him, and almost entirely on the right side. 
Some were continued in a kind of line. They were scarified, 
and corrosive sublimate and turpentine applied to them. The 
horse left the hospital forty-four days after his first arrival. The 
farcy buttons had disappeared, and nothing remained but this 
deeply-seated induration at the point of the shoulder, and which 
could not have been removed without making a large and deep 
wound. M. Renault, however, did not deem it prudent to do 
this after symptoms of farcy had developed themselves. 
CASE VII. 
An entire horse, seven years old, had been bitten in the neck 
by another horse. The postillion continued to work him—the 
wound became serious—and the animal was sent to Alfort. On 
examination, it appeared that sinuses now penetrated between 
the muscles of the neck, and a little pouch had been formed in 
which the pus had collected, and remained for some time. From 
