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pathological character of acute glanders, and yet manifest the; 

 sluggishness of the chronic variety; the third, that species of the 

 disease in which all progress seems suspended, the morbid parts 

 within the reach of our examination presentmg no indication what- 

 ever of activity — of inflammation, ulceration, &c. To these we 

 may add a variety our continental professional brethren have 

 named ty2:)hoid glanders ; but which is nothing more than the 

 most malignant form of (he acute, the malignancy being owing to 

 the state of health of the patient at the time, the situation, &c. also, 

 we have to add, ejnzootic or enzootic glanders, an appellation 

 given to the disease when unusually prevalent ; ^wA farcy -glanders, 

 which is no more than farcy combined with glanders. 



ACUTE GLANDERS.— The purest and best specimen af- 

 forded us of this variety is the disease resulting from inoculation, 

 that which we might denominate 



Inoculated Glanders. — Supposing inoculation with glander- 

 ous matter to be performed on the Schneiderian membrane, some- 

 times so early as the third, always on the fourth day afterwards — 

 providing the inoculation take effect — may be discovered swelling of 

 the submaxillary lymphatic glands corresponding to the side infected, 

 with, in general, some slight discharge from the inoculated nostril, 

 ulceration following on the fifth or sixth day : and these results are 

 often accompanied by some appearance of farcy, manifested in the 

 tumefaction of that chain of lymphatic vessels which extends from 

 the ala nasi and angle of the mouth to the swollen glands under 

 the throat. From this time the disease within the nose spreads 

 rapidly, the nasal membrane quickly becoming a sheet of ulcer- 

 ation, and issuing discharges in that profusion and of that glutinous 

 character that in some cases, so early as the tenth day, in hardly 

 any later than the twentieth, the animal — a young ass, commonly 

 —dies actually suffocated through obstruction in the nasal pas- 

 sages, caused by the accumulation of the discharges within them^ 

 combined with the agglutination and tumefaction of the nostrils 

 outwardly. 



Acute Glanders, however, is often enough to be seen — in 

 situations where glanders is prevalent — where there is no reason 

 to suspect either inoculation or contagion to have been present. 



