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ON THE RE-ABSORPTION OF PUS. 
the lower lip of the wound there ran a long, hard, knotted cord, 
and which had increased two inches in length since the last 
night: a slight infiltration existed round this cord, and there 
could not be any doubt that it was a true farcy cord. The 
wound was cleansed with the chloride of lime, and the corrosive 
sublimate and turpentine applied to the cord. The wound after¬ 
wards looked well; but the cord lengthened until it measured at 
least a foot. The horse was cast, and the cord dissected out, 
and the hot iron applied over the whole extent of the wound. 
Twenty-three days after the operation, the wound, from having 
been more than a foot long, was reduced to three inches, and a 
fortnight afterwards it was completely cicatrized, and the horse 
was sent to work. 
This horse had scarcely been cured when the same accident 
happened to one of his companions in the same establishment. 
He was bitten in the throat: the wound was deep, and almost 
reached the trachea. Here also the pus that was formed had 
not free escape, and it accumulated under the skin; and in 
eight days after the bite there was a manifest farcy cord extend¬ 
ing down the neck, and almost reaching the ganglions at the 
entrance into the chest. Two inches of the lower part of this 
cord were excised, and the hot iron applied, and the same care 
was taken, both in the operation and the dressing, that had been 
used in the last operation, that it might not be possible for 
the pus to be arrested in its course, especially before it had ac¬ 
quired good consistence; for the cause that had once produced 
the evil might do so again. In five weeks the horse was well. 
CASE vni. 
A gelding, fourteen years old. Eight days before, a tumour 
was observed on the neck, produced by the pressure of the collar : 
fluctuation w^as evident—the skin on the summit of it was of 
a blue colour, and from its base, the skin around which was 
cedematous, proceeded a farcy cord directing its course towards 
the ganglions of the chest. The tumour was opened, and the 
cord thoroughly covered with a mixture of corrosive sublimate 
and turpentine. From that moment the cord ceased to extend 
itself, and, indeed, soon disappeared ; and in thirty days the 
horse was dismissed from the infirmary. 
CASE IX. 
A mare had, twenty days before, shewn some difficulty in 
swallowing. A swelling was soon evident in the parotid region 
on both sides of the throat. A little while afterwards that on 
the left side disappeared, but the other continued to increase 
