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The germ gains entrance to the system through 

 operative (castration) or accidental wounds. 



Bovine farcy. 



This disease is peculiar to the bovine species. 

 Formerly noticed in France, it appears to be much 

 rarer at the present time ; it exists in the Guadalope. 

 It is usually located on the limbs, manifesting itself 

 by painless cords along the course of the subcuta- 

 neous veins and terminating at the corresponding 

 lymphatic glands ; the brachial, prescapular and pre- 

 pectoral glands are those most frequently attacked. 

 These cords and glands may suppurate; the suppura- 

 tion is always slowly evolved and the whole assumes 

 the characters of a cold abscess, with very thick and 

 indurated walls. After these abscesses are opened 

 the subject seems to recover, but very soon other tu- 

 mors appear. The animal pines away and dies by slow 

 decline. The autopsy brings to light pseudo-tubercu- 

 lous lesions wnth purulent centers in the internal 

 organs: lungs, liver, spleen, and lymphatic glands. 



We are indebted solely to M. l^ocard for the bacte- 

 rial study of the disease. 



Microbe. — There is found in the pus of the abscesses 



and in the center of the pseudo-tubercular lesions " a 



long, slender bacillus, appearing under 



the form of small, intricately interwoven 



^LllY^ masses, the central part forming an 



n /^ opaque nucleus from which radiate to 



Bovine farcy, the periphery myriads of fine prolonga- 



(M. and L.) tions, the majority of which seem to 



branch." The dimensions of this bacillus are nearly 



the same as those of the bacillus of rouget. 



