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either heal up and then break out again, or they 

 may gradually take on the appearance of the sores just 

 described. 



The buds, ulcers, or sores, by all of which names 

 they are known, are characterized by their bright red 

 exuberant granulations and their fungoid appearance, as 

 well as by their indurated base and well-defined edges ; 

 the adjoining skin, which is partially inverted, has a 

 peculiar shiny appearance ; an opening exists in the 

 centre of the bud, from which the pus, at first creamy, 

 and afterwards yellowish, oily, and curdled, is continually 

 discharging. 



Careful examination of these buds or sores will 

 show that they are really quite different from those of 

 glanders (farcy), and that with energetic treatment they 

 have an inclination to heal. 



The disease is commonest in the limbs, and will 

 be found in the fore-leg generally extending up along 

 the fore-arm to the anti-brachial region and point of 

 shoulder as seen in Plates VI, Vll, and VIJI, or, if it 

 extends from the elbow (frequently seen as a sequel to 

 capped elbows), it extends across the caput muscles. In 

 the hind limbs it has a great tendency to extend along the 

 inside of the thigh, as seen in Plates IX and X (where 

 wounds due particularly to kicks are frequently situated), 

 to the groin, and from thence it may wind round the 

 back of the thigh or extend along the belly. The 

 writer has seen an animal with as many as thirty-three 

 sores, varying from the size of a sixpence to a five- 

 shilling piece and larger, on one limb. The majority 

 of cases observed by me in the fore-limb were developed 

 from broken knees and wounds (principally caused by 

 kicks) on the inside of the fore-arm ; these cases in 

 developing extend as a rule, rather deeply seated, up 

 along the flexor brachii muscle to the point of shoulder, 



