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could he done, as to discover whether the progress of farcy could 
be arrested by local applications when the corded and knotted 
absorbents began to appear. He severely applied the cautery to 
the farcy bud a3 soon as it appeared ; he destroyed the part, and 
the virus which was contained within it, and he arrested the pro¬ 
gress of the disease without any assistance from internal medicine. 
The practitioner should therefore endeavour to destroy the virus 
as soon as it is arrested at the valve, and before it could be 
absorbed, or inflammation produced, and the constitution affected. 
It seems to be a law of many of these contagious diseases, that 
the virus will remain a considerable time inert and innocuous on 
the place on which it is deposited. If, two months after a man has 
been bitten by a mad dog, and no symptom of hydrophobia 
having appeared, the part is completely excised, this dreadful 
disease will not appear: so the farcy bud may be destroyed with 
the probability of success, while the disease is purely local, and 
no symptom of constitutional derangement has taken place. The 
cautery should, therefore, be early and freely applied wherever a 
farcy bud can be detected, and with sufficient severity to destroy 
the tumour, with the virus which it contains. To this may be 
added, the application of blisters to the portion of skin affected. 
The irritation produced externally will abate the inflammation of 
the subcutaneous tissue, and the absorbents ramifying through it. 
The administration of internal medicine may, however, be had 
recourse to, wdiether as having any supposed effect in arresting the 
progress of contamination, or supporting the constitution against 
the debilitating effect of the disease. That on which most 
dependence can be placed will be a combination of sulphate of 
copper, in doses of a drachm daily, with calomel to the extent of 
a scruple, with two drachms of the common turpentine. The 
diuretic may hasten the progress of the virus through the absorb¬ 
ents before the constitution has been affected; and regular and 
moderate exercise may conduce to the accomplishment of the 
same purpose. 
THE NATURE AND TREATMENT OF FARCY, AS 
TAUGHT AT THE VETERINARY SCHOOL AT 
ALFORT. 
[Extracted from Professor Vatel’a Elements of Veterinary Pathology.] 
Inflammations rarely acute, and ordinarily chronic, of the 
lymphatic ganglions and vessels, and those altogether obscure, 
of parts where the existence of these ganglions and vessels is 
even doubtful, designated in the horse, the mule, and the ass, 
under the name of farcy, have been sometimes observed in the ox, 
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