442 NATURE AND TREATMENT OF FARCY, 
They have a great analogy, and perhaps a perfect identity, with 
those diseases in man designated under the name of scrofula. 
The predisposing cause of farcy is the predominance of the 
lymphatic system. 
Irritations in some part of the frame, slightly marked but long 
continued,—those which remain during the recovery from dis¬ 
eases which have existed a considerable time, or have been in¬ 
completely cured,— those which follow sudden change of situation, 
food, or kind of work,—and especially those of the digestive 
canal, caused by the use of fodder which is damaged, dry, damp, 
mouldy, musty, or of unwholesome water, See.,— frequent stoppage 
of the perspiration,—living in damp and cold stables—cold rains, 
immersion in water, 8cc., are the most ordinary determinating 
causes. 
Although always of the same nature, farcy shews itself exte¬ 
riorly under several different aspects; under the form of buds 
or buttons, cords or swellings, more or les§ extended. 
The first form .—The buds are hard, indolent, and frequently 
rounded; detached from the cutis and other parts ; entirely formed 
interiorly of a hard, fibrous, very close tissue, as white as 
milk; crepitating under the bistoury; appearing beneath the skin, 
and remaining during a longer or shorter time perfectly stationary, 
then beginning to soften at the centre, and to become adherent to 
the skin; they afterwards contain a pultaceous matter, yellow, 
or of a dirty white, slightly tinged with red. They become 
completely softened, and are converted into a white matter, thick 
and homogenous, the consistence of which is sometimes caseous, 
sometimes puriform, and sometimes analogous to that of thick jelly. 
Under the name of farcy buds are also designated those which, 
instead of being under the cutaneous tissue, rise above the skin 
and cause it to become diseased. Much smaller than the others, 
they much sooner run on to abscesses, discharging an ichorous 
serosity ; and, in fine, which do not so easily fill up or cicatrize 
as the others. 
Second form .—An elongated tumour, formed by a white indu¬ 
ration, more or less cylindroid, frequently detached from the skin 
and the subjacent tissues, the size of which varies, and the 
direction of which is usually that of the principal lymphatic 
vessels of the part, and more or less indolent. They present 
here and there enlargements, more or less determined, which are 
so many farcy buttons superadded to the body of the farcy cord. 
This cord is formed externally of a hard dense white tissue, 
sometimes even fibrous, and presents in its interior, in its softened 
state, a canal containing the pultaceous matter of farcy. The 
enlargements of this cord become abscesses, like the separate buds, 
