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A SKETCH OF THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF 
FARCY, AS TAUGHT AT THE ST. PANCRAS 
VETERINARY SCHOOL. 
[We comply with the request of several of our correspondents ; 
and as Mr. Youatt’s Lecture in the present number is princi¬ 
pally anatomical, we give a sketch of the opinions taught in other 
schools on a very important subject of a practical nature, treated 
of by him in our number for May.— Edit.] 
Farcy and glanders are considered to be essentially the same, 
as the one so frequently terminates in the other. It is no objection 
to this that the first admits of remedy, and the second is incur¬ 
able ; for a poison may be fatal when attacking one tissue, or 
acting on one constitution, but not in another stage of its action, 
or attacking another tissue. Farcy has been produced by glan¬ 
derous matter, and glanders by the matter of farcy; and glanders 
much oftener than farcy, when an animal has been inoculated 
with the virus of farcy. 
Farcy is a specific inflammation of the superficial absorbents. 
The buds are occasioned by the matter being arrested at the 
valves of these absorbents. The absorbents at those parts, 
at which the skin is thinnest, are most susceptible of farcy; thus 
it is oftenest seen on the inside of the thigh, and about the 
muzzle. 
In the majority of cases, these buds or knots will suppurate, 
and a chain of ulcers will appear following the course of the 
veins, because the absorbents accompany the veins : at other 
times the buds will continue enlarged and hard for a very long 
period. Sometimes the absorbents of a particular part are dis¬ 
eased, and the inflammation rapidly proceeds, and large tumours 
and abscesses are formed; the virus is thus discharged, and the 
animal gets well; and when the buds continue hard and scirrhous, 
the horse recovers, or at least seems for awhile to do so, for the 
disease too often breaks out afresh at some distant period. This 
relapse is generally fatal. 
Occasionally, after the indurated knots have continued for 
some months, a discharge begins to appear from the nostrils, and 
then farcy is assuming the form of glanders. In old horses it is 
often connected with or produced by a diseased state of the lungs. 
Farcy, although a contagious disease, is oftenest generated in 
the system. The causes which first produced it may give birth 
to it a second time, if an animal is exposed to their influence, and 
