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may become largely swollen, but more commonly one side of 

 the nose. The animal becomes a loathsome, miserable object, 

 and may die from exhaustion at this stage. But this is not 

 generally the case. Another train of symptoms, 



Tlie third stage., occurs, and vre have a case of glanders in 

 its last and incurable stage ; and the disease continues its on- 

 ward progress until the final work of death is accomplished. 



But farcy does not always pursue this regular course of 

 symptoms. Its attack is sometimes ushered in by very puz- 

 zling symptoms ; and so, also, do very different symptoms 

 occasionally take place during the progress of the disease. 



Sometimes the horse will be attacked with a sudden lameness 

 in one hind-foot ; can hardly carry it along ; and the owner 

 will think his horse must have been exposed to accident or 

 hard treatment. He examines the hip, the hough, the stifle, 

 the fetlock, and the foot ; perhaps goes to a blacksmith and has 

 the hoof tried. And while this search is going on, the horse 

 may get well, or apparently so, at least, and keep so for a few 

 days, or even weeks; and then, suddenly, and unobserved, 

 or in one night, one of the legs, more frequently the hind-leg, 

 swells to two or three times its natural size ; and, on examina- 

 tion, the knotted cord or the farcy-buds will be found, and the 

 case remains no longer in the dark. 



Occasionally the head, and more particularly the muzzle, 

 will be the seat of enormous swelling, accompanied with an 

 offensive discharge from the nose. In other cases the horse 

 becomes "hide-bound," with loss of strength and flesh; patches, 

 of the appearance of mange, are distributed over the skin ; 

 the legs swell, and cracks about the heels occur. Care must 

 be taken not to confound this appearance of the disease with 

 "grease-heel," which might be done, by a careless examina- 

 tion.. 



Occasionally, after the buds have formed, they become hard 

 and difficult to disperse; do not ulcerate; the horse remain- 

 ing for many months apparently well of the disease. But the 



