382 FAECY AND GLANDERS. 



of war amongst horses engaged in the transport service, as 

 well as those used by the cavalry. The prevalence of the 

 diseases, under these circumstances, has been ascribed to 

 privation, dirt, and bad management. Probably it is not a 

 little due to the necessary congregation of animals of all 

 kinds, healthy and unhealthy, and to the facilities for inocu- 

 lation amongst animals often bruised, cut, and otherwise 

 injured. It has been noticed, that mules engaged in the 

 transport service in times of war suffer very severely from 

 acute glanders, and, like asses, they are rarely attacked by 

 chronic farcy or the slow and insidious form of glanders. In 

 the French army the average annual loss by glanders amounts 

 to 23.8 per 1000 horses, and 1.5 per 1000 die of farcy. 



Symptoms of Farcy. In the acute form of this disease, 

 there are first the symptoms of irritative fever, such as 

 shivering, followed by heat of body, frequent pulse, hurried 

 breathing, dulness, &c. In the chronic form, the local signs 

 first appear, and they consist in papulae, or circumscribed 

 inflammatory swellings of the skin, either situated around a 

 wound, or on the course of the principal vessels of the head, 

 trunk, or limbs. One or more isolated swellings or buds 

 may occur, but usually they are seen to congregate, and are 

 more or less connected with each other by corded lym- 

 phatics, which are very tender on pressure. Generally in the 

 course of these inflamed lymphatics, slight tumefactions occur 

 at the seat of the valves, and wherever a swelling begins a 

 farcy bud forms. Each farcy bud suppurates ; the pus dis- 

 charged may at first be laudable, but is soon more or 

 less ichorous and irritating. The opening through which 

 each abscess bursts becomes enlarged by ulceration, and has 

 no tendency to heal. The part which is the seat of the 

 eruption may be more or less diffusely inflamed, and this 

 happens especially with the hind extremities, which are the 



