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of the forehead becomes thickened, and somewhat swelled. 

 Farcy is now superadded to glanders, or glanders has degen- 

 erated into farcy, and more of the absorbents are involved. 



"At or before this time, little tumors appear about the 

 muscles, face, and neck, following the course of the veins and 

 the absorbents, for they run side by side, and these the tumors 

 soon ulcerate. Tumors, or buds, still pursuing the path of 

 the absorbents, soon appear on the inside of the thighs. They 

 are connected together by a corded substance. This is the 

 inflamed and enlarged lymphatic, and ulceration quickly 

 follows the appearance of these buds. The deeper-seated 

 absorbents are next affected; and one or both of the hind 

 legs swell to a great size, and become stiff, hot, and tender. 

 The loss of flesh and strength is more marked every day. 

 The membrane of the nose becomes of a dirty, livid color. 

 The membrane of the mouth is strangely pallid. The eye is 

 infiltrated with a yellow fluid, and the discharge from the 

 nose becomes more profuse, and insufferably oftensive. The 

 animal presents one mass of putrefaction, and, at last, dies 

 exhausted. 



"The enlargement of the submaxillary glands, as connected 

 with this disease, may, perhaps, require a little further con- 

 sideration. A portion of the fluid secreted by the membrane 

 of the nose, and altered in character by the peculiar inflam- 

 mation there existing, is absorbed; and, as it is conveyed 

 along the lymphatics, in order to arrive at the place of its 

 destination, it inflames them, and causes them to enlarge and 

 suppurate. There is, however, a peculiarity accompanying 

 the inflammation, which they take from the absorbtion of the 

 virus of glanders. They are rarely large, except at first, or 

 hot or tender ; but they are characterized by a singular hard- 

 ness, a proximity to the jaw-bone, and frequently -actual 

 adhesion to it. The adhesion is produced by the inflamma- 

 tory action going forward in the glands, and the effusion of 

 coagulable lymph. This hardness and adhesion accompany- 

 ing discharge from the nostrils, and being on the same side 

 with the nostril whence the discharge proceeds, aflbrd proof 



