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external mucous membranes; thus Frohner observed it in tlie 

 form of a soft polypous proliferation, the size of a walnut, near 

 the left nostril. Patrick observed the same in the form of a 

 tumor of the size of a hen's egg on the upper jaw, while Gutbrod 

 described a case in which numerous small nodules occurred on 

 the inner surface of the upper eyelid, causing this organ to 

 appear much swollen. 



Lienaux saw one case in which the right intermaxillary gland 

 attained double the size of a man's fist, while about 20 nodes the size 

 of a hazelnut could be observed in the course of the right facial crest. 



In one case small boils with muco-purulent, yellowish-red contents 

 were found to develop after the operation of docking; there was simul- 

 taneous thickening of the skin and complete alopecia ; subsequently the 

 cutis of the head and particularly in the region of the lips became 

 enormously swollen, numerous fistulae were formed and there was slight 

 enlargement of the intermaxillary glands. 



Fig. 112, Botryomyces of the prepectoral Region. (Plosz. ) 



In cattle the disease is much less frequent ; Csokor and Im- 

 melmann observed the same as an aifection of the udder, Reali 

 in the form of tumors of the subcutaneous connective tissue of 

 the shoulder and croup, Bollet as small subcutaneous nodes of 

 the cervical region, extirpation of which was followed after two 

 years by the appearance of very numerous nodes in the sub- 



