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NATURE AND TREATMENT OF FARCY. 
and the suppuration is almost as rapid. But when, on the con¬ 
trary, these buds or cords are formed on subjects in whom the 
nervous and sanguine systems are far from being the predominant 
ones, or on parts where the skin, soft and loose, covers tissues 
but slightly vascular, such as on the superior region of the chest, 
the breast, the flanks, the croup, on the thighs, the legs, 8cc., 
the morbid symptoms are much longer in appearing. 
There are sometimes found in the interior of deeply-seated 
farcy buds a perfect encysted abscess containing a matter pro¬ 
duced by suppuration similar to that of the ordinary farcy buds. 
This abscess may remain for a long time, and frequently until the 
death of the patient, without appearing to sustain any manifest 
change. 
Opinions are still divided as to the contagious or non-conta¬ 
gious nature of farcy. While we wait for new proof of its non¬ 
contagion, it will be prudent to separate the healthy animals from 
those diseased. 
The means adapted to diminish the irritation of the lymphatic, 
and to recover to the sanguineous system the predominance 
which it has lost, are the most rational ones to make use of. 
Experience proves that air pure, dry, and often renewed, the use 
of light coverings, frequent and thorough hand-rubbing, whole¬ 
some food, and moderate exercise, are the things which may be 
considered as preservatives, and as auxiliaries in promoting a cure. 
To this treatment may be added the use of bitters (gentian, hops, 
wormwood, &c.)and other preparations of the same nature, given 
in doses proportioned to the state of the stomach. 
Sulphurous and antimonial preparations combined with bitters, 
and a decoction of the great hemlock, have occasionally been admi¬ 
nistered with much success in cases of farcy. These remedies, which 
have often failed, ought only to be applied to those subjects whose 
mucous membranes are pale, the skin cold, the action slow, and 
who are apathetic and little irritable. The hydrochlorate of 
barytes may also be made use of in these cases, and which is 
used under the same circumstances to combat the scrofulous 
diseases of the human species. 
Whatever may be the result of the use of some of these drugs 
in the treatment of this affection, the indication of cure ought to 
be, first, to combat the irritation which accompanies farcy erup¬ 
tions by general bleedings, lotions, and emollient anodyne poul¬ 
tices placed on the tumours, and by restrictions of diet suitable 
to the state of the patient: and, secondly, to remove the indura¬ 
tion of the tumours by discutients, such as mercurial ointment, 
ointment of hvdriodate of potash, or that of protochloruret of 
mercurv. 
