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Complicated Mischief. — And now the superficial and the 
deeper-seated absorbents being involved, a strange aggravation 
of disease is soon observed: the ulcerations are more rapid and 
more extensive ; they involve not only the valve of the larger ab¬ 
sorbent, but whole masses of minute absorbents. The virus is 
greater in quantity, more virulent, more corrosive. The ulcers 
run into sinuses about the hock, and under the flexors ; difficult 
to get at, and difficult to treat. There are discharges of foetid 
matter from most or all of them, and from the nose and from the 
mouth, attended with enlargement, threatening instant suffoca¬ 
tion : at other times the inside of the thigh, at others almost the 
whole frame, presents a mass of ulceration and putridity. 
Different in different Horses. —The mode of attack varies con¬ 
siderably in different horses. Sometimes the animal appears to 
be nearly or perfectly sound, when, all at once, the farcy ulcers 
and farcy engorgements appear, and speedily run their course : 
but in the generality of cases there is some warning, from loss of 
appetite and condition, and spirits and strength, and the gradual 
appearance of the corded absorbent and the knotted valve about 
the face or the neck, and slight swellings of the limbs, giving far 
more pain than their external appearance would account for. 
Does Farcy exist without previous Glanders ?—We have been 
told that farcy exists without previous glanders. I am not dis¬ 
posed to deny, that something almost amounting to this may have 
occurred; but they who tell us that it is of such frequent occur¬ 
rence forget, or are not aware of, the long-continued insidious 
stage of glanders; the time which may elapse, and often does 
elapse, before the owner is aware, or the veterinary surgeon sure 
of it; how possible it is that minute ulceration may have for a 
considerable period existed in some of the recesses of the nose, 
or that the slight discharge, undreaded and unrecognized, yet 
vitiated, poisoned, and capable of communicating the disease to 
others, may have been long absorbed and carried through the 
frame, and affected the absorbents, and prepared for the sudden 
display of farcy. 
Farcy ultimately combined with Glanders. —One thing is un¬ 
deniable, that farcy does not long or extensively prevail without 
being accompanied by glanders; that in the majority of mild 
cases of farcy, glanders may be seen if looked for; and that it 
never destroys the animal without plainly associating itself with 
glanders. 
The true 'Theory of Farcy and Glanders. —Farcy and glan¬ 
ders are, in fact, stages of the same disease. Glanders, when re¬ 
cognizable by ulceration, is farcy of the Schneiderian membrane 
—inflammation of the absorbents of that membrane, and ulcera- 
