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other. It develops quickly, and most authors say it is spontaneously 

 generated. When the animal has been inoculated with the virus, the 

 first symptoms will appear in four or five days, and will be extreme 

 rigours, increased temperature, a discharge from one or both nostrils ; 

 chancrous ulcers in the nose, appearing far more quickly than in the 

 chronic form, and they become confluent. The lungs are affected to a 

 greater or less extent, and, in a great many cases, are severely affected 

 with lobular inflammation, which frequently causes death. And I 

 have noticed some cases where swelling of the limbs occurred, gener- 

 ally in one hind limb. 



Post-Mortem. — Appearances are the same as given in the chronic 

 form ; diffuse suppuration in the lungs, or a gangrenous condition of 

 the lungs. A healthy animal may take it and die in from one to three 

 weeks. Farcy exists with glanders, and is identical with glanders, 

 although presenting different manifestations. Farcy is a term applied 

 to many affections that are not really farcy, and could not be dis- 

 tinguished from it by a casual observer ; one is called watery farcy. 

 But when we say farcy, we mean a disease due to a specific blood 

 poison, either generated within, or introduced into the system, and 

 operating on the glands. It occurs in two forms, acute and chronic. 

 It frequently terminates in glanders ; and we find by experience that 

 glanders will produce farcy, and farcy glanders. If the animal is not 

 pretty severely affected, you may mistake it in the first stage ; there 

 is more or less fever, with a very well shown increase of temperature 

 of the body ; but these changes are not so significant to the casual 

 observer. Little swellings appear in connection with the lymphatic 

 glands, in one of the limbs, a hind limb generally. It looks like 

 lymphangitis. The swelling takes place in the lymphatic glands. It 

 may occur in the head and neck, or even in other parts of the body ; 

 and if upon the body, it may be taken for surfeit. These little enlarge- 

 ments change character to some extent ; a discharge of aqueous char- 

 acter takes place ; the openings do not heal as readily as ordinary 

 sores, and they are called farcy buds. As well as this, you generally 

 have, after the enlargements appear, little cords extending from the 

 enlargements in various directions. These are designated farcy cords, 

 A great many enlargements will appear, especially in the sub-maxillary 

 glands and linguinal glands. They become enlarged, and run into 

 each other more or less. The animal falls off in condition, presents a 

 hide-bound appearance, etc. As well as these lymphatics being 

 affected, a great part of the limb becomes swollen, presenting much 

 the appearance of lymphangitis, unless the farcy buds are present. 

 But in from two to six weeks we have symptoms which show the true 

 character of the disease, and it may remain in this form for some time, 

 and then acute farcy may set in. In other cases where you have the 

 chronic form, it may remain in the same condition for some time, and 

 all at once the joints will swell, perhaps the hock joint, then a discharge 

 from the nose takes place ; chancrous ulcers form, and it is speedily 

 followed by glanders. The ulcers appear to heal to a certain extent, 

 but if it is a true case of farcy, the healing process never takes place 

 perfectly. Prof. Williams thinks cases have been cured. I have 

 known it to remain in the same condition for a considerable length of 

 time, and spread the disease to a considerable extent. I knew one 

 treated for more than a year, and caused the death of four good horses. 

 I never knew a case to recover. It is due to a blood poison, it cannot 

 be cured ; but you may have somewhat similar conditions, not due to 

 specific poison. In the acute form the symptoms are developed in a 



