Cutaneous Glanden 



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persists while nodes and ulcers subsequently develop in the skin and 

 subcutaneous connective tissue. 



Glanders of the bones is rare and when observed it is 

 usually in the form of spindle-shaped, painless enlargements 

 of the ribs. deDoes observed the disease in one of the meta- 

 tarsal bones, a painful swelling extending from the hoof to 

 the tarsus having appeared after the operation of shoeing and 

 becoming hard as stone in the course of a month, but it subse- 

 quently subsided and left only an enlargement the size of a 



Fig. 119. VutaneQUS Ulandtrs (Farcy). Nodes and Strands of Lymph Vessels. 



dollar. Affection of the joints with symptoms of moderate pain 

 and diffuse swelling is equally rare. 



In male animals a glanderous inflammation of the testes, 

 in mares a similar inflammation of the udder (Schmidt) may 

 be observed in connection with other symptoms. 



In the line of general symptoms disturbances of nutrition 

 usually make themselves manifest before the disease has ad- 

 vanced much; even in the latent stage of the affection. In 

 other cases, especially in pulmonary glanders, the general nutri- 



