LYMPHANGITIS SACCHAROMYCOTICA (FARCI- 



NOIDES : EPIZOOTICA: ULCEROSA.) 



FARCY IN CATTLE. 



Geographical distribution and nature : Japan, Northern Europe, France, 

 Guadaloupe ; caseating nodules in skin, subcutem, in mucosae and internal 

 organs. In horse skin nodules, and glandular abscesses, with thick ovoid 

 refrangent bacterium ; saccharomyces (Hitt) ; swellings first local, then 

 multiple, and general, extending along lymph vessels to glands i^Hitt) ; 

 along air-passages to lungs, from prepuce or scrotum to peritoneum (Hitt), 

 or from conjunctiva to other parts in the orbit (Caparini and Ferner). In 

 cattle, multiple, subcutaneous, nodules — hazlenut to walnut, isolated, hard, 

 painless. Suppurate slowly. Same saccharomyces (Tokishige, Nocard). 

 May invade lungs with fatal result in a year. Mallein test gives no reaction. 

 Treatment : actively antiseptic ; open, curette, pack with antiseptic gauze, 

 sublimate bandages ; internally, tonics, antiseptics. 



Horses and cattle in certain countries (Japan, Sweden, Finland, 

 France, Guadaloupe) are subject to a chronic lymphangitis re- 

 sembling cutaneous glanders, but associated with the development 

 of bacilli or fungi in the nodular, caseating swellings in the skin, 

 subcutem, in mucosae and in internal organs. 



Nocard describes the affection in the horse as characterized by 

 skin nodules (buttons, boils), which burst and discharge a thick, 

 grumous, or thin, oily, yellowish or bloody pus. The surrounding 

 lymph plexus swells up into corded lines, with at intervals 

 nodules or abscesses. The infection extends to and implicates 

 the lymph glands and general pyemia may follow. The thick 

 ovoid refrangent, pathogenic, bacterium stains in Gram's solu- 

 tion. 



In Northern Europe and Asia, Southern Europe and Guada- 

 loupe an analagous affection is described by Rivolta, Claudio- 

 Fermi, Aruch, Tokishige and Nocard and Leclainche. Hitt 

 attributes this to saccharomyces. The infection attacks horses 

 and cattle, entering by sores and abrasions of the skin of the 

 limbs, or under the harness (back, breast, rump, head). Con- 

 fined at first to the point of infection it becomes multiple, being 

 conveyed from place to place, through the soil, floor, stall, har- 

 ness, blankets, brushes, combs, straw, etc., and may extend on 

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