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most frequently affected. The fore limbs suffer next in point 

 of frequency, and next to the extremities we find the head 

 most commonly implicated. The lymphatic glands in the 

 vicinity of the part affected tumefy. Farcy may kill in eight or 

 ten days, or continue in a chronic form for several months. 

 When it kills it has usually been followed by glanders. 



Symptoms of Glanders. As in farcy, we find the premo- 

 nitory signs of fever in this form of disease, and the animal 

 dull and dispirited, with discharge at the nose. The dis- 

 charge is at first watery and then purulent ; it may attack 

 only one nostril, right or left, or both, and the submaxillary 

 lymphatic glands are swollen, solid, and have a tendency to 

 adhere firmly to the inside of the jaw. The nostrils are often 

 swollen, and more or less closed by the glutinous discharge, 

 which soon becomes fetid and sometimes sanious. On 

 opening the nostrils, pustules and ulcers are seen on the 

 ScLneiderian membrane, and as the disease advances, the 

 ulceration extends so as even to lead to an open communica- 

 tion between the two nasal chambers. In some mysterious 

 cases of glanders, the ulceration occurs in the false nostril ; 

 and I have often seen French veterinarians pass their thumb 

 into the false nostril to feel for any such ulcer. 



Ulceration of the Schneiderian membrane may occur in 

 other diseases of the horse, but so rarely that we are apt to 

 look upon it as truly diagnostic of glanders, and the diagnosis 

 is confirmed when, on auscultation, the lungs are found im- 

 plicated. The signs of the lung complications are, difficult 

 breathing ; considerable constitutional disturbance in many 

 instances, whereas in others there is simply dulness and 

 percussion ; and absence of respiratory murmur over conside- 

 rable portions of lung, with tolerable resonance and loud 

 murmur over others. The lung affection consists in the 

 development of many abscesses interspersed throughout the 



