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Symptoms. The disease is most frequently seen in the chronic 

 form, there being a discharge from the nostrils which varies in 

 appearance and can not be considered as characteristic; it may 

 either sink in water or float on the surface; usually is somewhat 

 viscid and adheres around the nostrils; may be thin and almost 

 clear and small in amount, or thicker and yellowish with or with- 

 out odor. The discharge may be from both nostrils, or from 

 only one, either right or left. Glanders may be, and not infre- 

 quently is, confounded with other affections somewhat resem- 

 bling it in some of its symptoms, especially those diseases in 

 which nasal discharge constitute a prominent feature, such as 

 nasal gleet, strangles, pink-eye, acute and chronic nasal catarrh, 

 infectious and epizootic catarrhal fever, disease of the facial 

 sinuses, diseased teeth, tumors in nostrils, etc. The most char- 

 acteristic symptoms of glanders is the occurrence of ulcers on 

 the partitions between the nostrils, but they are absent, per- 

 haps, in a majority of cases, or situated so high up as to be out 

 of sight. The glands beneath the jaws (sub-maxillary lymphatic 

 glands) become enlarged and hardened, and may or may not be 

 attached to the bone. Discharge from the nose and enlarge- 

 ment of the sub-maxillary glands are nearly always present, but 

 in many cases there may be, for a long time, no other symptoms 

 presented, and such cases can not be diagnosed by mere physical 

 examination, even by an expert. 



In acute glanders the course is more rapid, with fever, greater 

 discharge from the nose often streaked with blood and a sudden 

 swelling of one or more limbs; ulcers soon appear upon the lin- 

 ing membrane of the nose, and death is the common termination, 

 but in some cases the acute is followed by the chronic form. 

 In the form known as farcy, they are small nodular enlarge- 

 ments of the size of a pea or larger, which form in different 

 parts of the body, but most frequently along the course of the 

 blood vessels inside the limbs, or on the face and neck. Only 

 a few may be present at a time or they may be numerous. They 



