132 GLANDERS AND FARCY. 



notice that the ability to be moved from place to place by 

 pressure with the lingers is much impaired, gradually to be 

 lost altogether, the gland becoming fixed both to the super- 

 adjacent connective tissue and to the jaw. 



Although these phenomena or conditions which have been 

 detailed — the albumino-muco-purulent, or slightly sanguineous 

 nasal discharge, with nodules, tubercles, ulcers, or superlicial 

 abrasions on the nasal membrane, together with indurated and 

 adherent maxillary lymphatic glands, and occasionally cuta- 

 neous specific changes, with little constitutional disturbance, 

 or febrile symptoms — are what may usually be regarded as 

 diagnostic of chronic glanders of the horse, the form with 

 which in this country we are probably most conversant, it is 

 yet certain that many cases occur where some of these, or it 

 may be all of them, are absent, and yet we know from many 

 sources that such are undoubtedly deeply infected with the 

 specific poison. 



3. Symptoms of Acute Farcy. — Farcy, in its two forms of 

 acute and chronic farcy, being but a manifestation or peculiar 

 development of the general empoisoned condition known by 

 the generic term ' glanders,' we can understand that the same 

 factors operate in its production which are charged with the 

 appearance of that other development known specially by the 

 inclusive or general term ' glanders.' 



It may be induced or owe its origin to artificial inoculation 

 with the specific discharges of the sores of glanders or farcy ; 

 or it may appear in animals from intimate cohabitation or 

 infection ; or, if we allow that it is possible, under certain 

 conditions unfavourable to animal health, to originate glanders, 

 so named, we are also necessitated to believe that under similar 

 degrading and debilitating influences it is possible to originate 

 acute farcy. 



Why the reception in both classes of cases of the same 

 infecting virus should in the one specially exhibit its specific 

 action in connection with the mucous membranes and struc- 

 tures of the upper air-passages, or with internal organs, and in 

 the other select the cutaneous or cutaneous and connective 

 tissues and superficial lymphatics, is rather difficult to deter- 

 mine ; probably the causes which thus operate are largely and 

 intimately associated with the soil in which the seed is im- 



