360 The Diseases of Animals 



between the nostrils, and in the false nostril. In bad 

 cases, these ulcers may perforate or "eat through" the 

 septum. The mucous membrane, instead of being a 

 healthy rose -pink, becomes a dull lead or dusky slate 

 color. The lymphatic glands under the jaw and be- 

 tween the jaw-bones enlarge, are often tender, and are 

 usually adherent to the adjacent tissues, or "grown fast 

 to the bone," as it is commonly expressed. These glands 

 rarely gather and break, as they do in distemper. 

 When they do suppurate, as in bad cases of glanders, 

 they are difficult to heal. As glanders progresses, the 

 horse gets "out of condition," the coat "stares," and 

 there is a general debilitated appearance. There is often 

 a profuse discharge of water -like urine. Horses with 

 chronic cases of glanders may live and work for years 

 without showing serious symptoms of the disease; but 

 all the time they are scattering the germs of the disease, 

 and, without exciting suspicion, often causing the death 

 of many other horses. 



In farcy, the germs of glanders attack the skin and 

 lymphatic glands. This disease is most frequently seen 

 in the region of the hind legs, and first appears as a 

 small firm bunch, or several bunches, in the skin. 

 These may attain the size of a hickory nut, and after 

 a time may break and discharge an amber fluid mixed 

 with pus, that dries about the sore. These bunches, or 

 sores, commonly called "farcy buds," are difficult to 

 heal. They often spread and become large raw sores. 

 The glands on the inside of the hind legs, together 

 with the ducts connecting them, enlarge and become 

 tender, and the hind legs swell. Farcy may run into 



