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cured to the place by an eight-tailed bandage tied in 

 front over the nose and back of the ears, so as to 

 keep the poultice in place. 



Glanders and Farcy. 



I prefer treating these two diseases in connection, 

 persuaded they are one and the same excited from 

 a common cause, running a similar course, while the 

 contagion of the one will produce the other, and 

 vice versa. The disease is termed Glanders when it is 

 principally confined to the head and nose, and called 

 Farcy when manifesting itself in the lymphatics. 



It is usually considered as the result of contagion, 

 but want of food, bad food, bad keeping, impure air 

 in too close stabling will generate it. 



SYMPTOMS OF GLANDERS. Constant discharge 

 from one or both nostrils, more frequently from one, 

 and that the left ; the discharge is at first thin and 

 watery, afterward thick like the white of egg. It 

 may continue in this way for some time, or it soon 

 becomes more mattery, sticky, then greenish or 

 yellowish, or mixed with streaks of blood, and hav- 

 ing a bad smell. Soon after this discharge is 

 noticed, the glands under the jaw become painful 

 and swollen, and one of them appears fixed to the 

 jawbone. Then the membrane lining the inside of 

 the nose has a yellowish or leaden color, which is 

 considered characteristic of the disease ; small 

 bladders are noticed upon it, which afterward are 

 changed to ulcers ; these have sharp borders, and 

 spread and deepen until the gristle and bones be- 



