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tendency to coalesce. The swollen and nodulated lymphatic 

 glands themselves, as in glanders, very rarely suppurate. 



The fever, which is of either the remittent or the hectic 

 type, is liable to exacerbations marked by rigors and localised 

 perspirations, and emaciation and prostration are marked. 



Not uncommonly, acute glanders is developed in these 

 cases. 



CHRONIC FARCY. 



Chronic farcy differs from the acute form only in intensity 

 and duration. It is a very common form of equinia, and 

 is more amenable to treatment than the other manifesta- 

 tions. The special features are eminently local. Fever, 

 when present, is more remittent than in the acute form, 

 and the constitutional symptoms are not so severe. In 

 this disease, circumscribed inflammatory nodules, which vary 

 in size, are developed in connection with the skin and sub- 

 jacent tissues. They afterwards soften, ulcerate, and dis- 

 charge a purulent fluid, and the ulcers have little tendency 

 to heal. The nodules are especially liable to invade the skin 

 where it is thin and vascular, as over the facial, maxillary and 

 laryngeal regions, and along the neck, thigh, forearm, and 

 flank. The lymphatic vessels and glands are also afl'ected 

 as in acute farcy, but the vessels are less liable to become 

 nodulated, and the infiltrated state may remain in an indo- 

 lent condition and eventually disappear. The glands them- 

 selves are not so painful nor so much swollen and infiltrated, 

 and suppuration follows more rarely than in glanders or 

 acute farcy. 



Morbid Anatomy, Diagnosis and Treatment of Equinia. 



Morbid Anatomy. The glanderous nodules which were 

 mentioned as being found in the pulmonary tissues are of 

 the size of a millet-seed, and grow in the connective-tissue 



