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Some of the horses stood with depressed and stretched-out 

 heads ; the temperature of the skin was warmer than natural, 

 although the ears and extremities were cold. The pulse was 60 

 per minute, and full; the respirations normal. Even those 

 showing the worst symptoms ate their food eagerly, but evinced 

 pain during prehension, masti- 

 cated slowly, swallowed with 

 difficulty, and saliva was secreted 

 in abundance, and a fine chloro- 

 phyl green discharge flowed from 

 the nasal cavities ; when water 

 was taken large quantities of it 

 was returned through the nose. 

 The Schneiderian membrane was 

 of a red rose colour ; both the 

 submaxillary glands were en- 

 larged to about the size of a 

 hen's egg — hard and knotty — 

 but unattached to the submaxil- 

 lary bone or integument. The 

 oral mucous membrane became 

 intensely hot, red, and covered 

 by a tenacious secretion. On 

 passing the hand over it, small 

 firm nodules, varying in size 

 from a millet to a lentil seed, could be felt. These nodules 

 rapidly increased in number and size, extending to the cheeks, 

 tip of tongne, frccnu7n lingucc, inferior surface 

 of tongue and upper lip, and in one or two 

 days later their summits presented a white 

 appearance, or the epithelium was removed, 

 and a small ulcerated surface was apparent, 

 and in four or five days the ulcerations were 

 numerous, the dental surface (see Tig. 8) of 

 the lips, the tip of the tongue (see Tig. 9), 

 frsenum, and inferior surface of it, being 

 specially affected. 



About the sixth or eighth day the ulcerations began to heal. 

 Four horses condemned as glandered, presented, in addition to 

 the above phenomena, ulceration of the external integument, 

 namely, on the upper lip, cheeks, and anterior extremities. 



Fig. 8. — Ulceration of dental sur- 

 face of lips. 



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Fig. 9. — Ulceration 

 of tip of tongue. 



