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well. At fxrst I was inclined to think I had got to contend with 
farcy, having had to destroy one a week previous to being called to 
the above case, which was a decided case of farcy; but in the 
remainder of my cases I did not meet with any corded or inflamed 
absorbents, nor any affection of the Schneiderian membrane to lead 
me to decide upon them being farcy; on the other hand, the nodu¬ 
lous swellings appeared to me so much the swellings we meet with 
in erysipelas, combined with the inflammatory symptoms which 
presented themselves, at the time the pulse running from 54 to 60 
beats per minute, and hard during the formation of pus in the 
swellings, I decided, in my own mind, that this belonged to the 
class of typhoid inflammation of the skin depending upon the 
presence of some morbid material in the blood. In all cases under 
treatment, two or three occurred in the fore legs, and many were 
accompanied with grease or cracked heels. 
The treatment I adopted was as follows; When the fever ran 
high I administered oleaginous draught, Spt. Nit. AEth. Liq. Amm. 
Acet., and ordered cold mashes. In the first cases the legs affected 
were poulticed; but I discontinued this, because it caused a great 
amount of sloughing, and, instead, I probed the sinuses with mild 
caustics, and in cases where there was any likelihood of a large 
slough through the existence of sinuses, I inserted a probe-pointed 
bistoury, and opened them from end to end, cut off the ragged 
edges, and treated for open sore; and when the granulations 
became exuberant, I applied a dressing of tar made hot, and mixed 
a slight quantity of Acid, muriaticum upon tow and bound it tight, 
and upon the third day the place was quite hard. The eschar thus 
formed was removed, another dressing applied, and, generally 
speaking, they required nothing more than to be kept clean. 
Those cases that appeared as indolent in their formation of granu¬ 
lations, I dressed with calomel on cold tar and tow, which proved 
very effectual. I gave, after the fever had subsided, tonics twice a 
day, containing Cupri Sulph. 5j« I preferred using this agent on 
account of its tendency to arrest, in cases of scrofula, farcy, and 
other diseases, abnormal secretions from the bowels, and so prevent 
them from being taken into the system. With these remarks I beg 
to leave the matter in your hands, and I hope we may arrive at 
something that will enlighten me upon a disease that I never saw 
before or since. 
At the conclusion, a vote of thanks w'as accorded the Chairman 
for the able manner in which he had presided over the meeting. 
A. L. Gibson, President. 
Alfred Challinor, Pon. Sec., 
Nelson Square, Bolton. 
