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the mucosae. The wounds fester, forming pus and crusts over a 

 more or less considerable swelling. In a variable time, (one to 

 twenty weeks) the surrounding lymphatics become swollen and 

 tender (corded), and nodular swellings appear on their course 

 which fluctuate, burst and discharge a whitish or yellowish pus, 

 sometimes oily or slimy. The disease extends along the lym- 

 phatics, invading the lymph glands and even the internal organs. 



Tokishige describes cases in which it extended along the res- 

 piratory mucosa, causing constriction of the nasal passages and 

 larger bronchi, with dyspnoea, and finally, invading the lung. 

 In other cases it spread from the prepuce, or scrotum, upward 

 along the tunica vaginalis, spermatic cord and testicle. Caparini 

 and Ferner describe it in the orbit, affecting the lids, nictitans, 

 conjunctiva and adjacent parts, with nodules and abscesses. Maz- 

 zanti describes the case of a filly which died with pea- like nodules 

 on the colon, and ulceration, with dirty, black, purulent centres, 

 and indurated borders. Tokishige describes the affected cattle 

 as showing a vast number of subcutaneous, hard, painless 

 nodules, varying in size from a hazel nut to a walnut and covered 

 by light colored skin. The nodules were isolated and not con- 

 nected by swollen, beaded lymph vessels. They encrease and 

 suppurate much more slowly than in the horse. In three cows 

 microscopically examined he found apparently the same branching 

 fungus (saccharomyces), as in the horse cases. The mortality is 

 about 10 per cent. 



In the farcy of the ox of Guadaloupe there form subcutaneous 

 nodular abscesses, with cordiform swelling of the lymph plexus 

 and trunks, often proving fatal in a year through extension to 

 the lnngs. The abscess breaks, discharging a whitish, creamy 

 or caseous, or grumous contents, containing a bacillus (Nocard). 

 The abscesses usually appear under the sternum or belly and 

 later extend to the thighs and legs. In all such cases the mal- 

 lein test is inoperative. 



The treatment of such cases should be actively antiseptic to 

 destroy the germ while still local. After opening and evacuating 

 the abscesses, excise or curette the diseased tissue, or destroy 

 with the actual cautery, pack the cavities with pledgets soaked 

 in tincture of iodine, iodized phenol creolin, lysol, mercuric 

 chloride, zinc chloride, or copper sulphate, or dusted with aristol, 



