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Excepting at the very outset, the animal usually appears to be 

 in the best of health, with the apparently insignificant draw- 

 back of the nasal discharge, and hence he is often kept and 

 used till he contaminates a number of horses or even men. 

 The case is easily recognized unless where the ulcers are 

 invisible or the enlarged glands removed. It is sometimes 

 needful to inoculate a useless animal to decide as to the nature 

 of the malady. It usually proves fatal to the inoculated animal 

 in about ten days. 



Symptoms of Aaite Farcy. — The premonitory symptoms 

 resemble those of acute glanders, of which it is but another 

 manifestation. The local symptoms consist in thickening of 

 the lymphatic vessels, which feel like stout cords, painful to 

 pressure ; and the formation of rounded inflammatory swellings 

 (farcy-buds) along the course of these corded lymphatics.. 

 There follow ulceration of these buds, raw sores, discharging a 

 glairy, unhealthy pus, and dropsical engorgement of the limb 

 Or other part affected. It is usually seen to follow the line ot 

 the veins on tlie inner side of the hind or fore limb, but may 

 appear on any part. The cording usually extends from the 

 feet toward the body, and is most likely to be confounded with 

 lymphaizgitis, in which the swelling begins high up in the 

 groin. It usually proves fatal, becoming complicated with 

 glanders before death. 



Symptoms of Chronic Farcy. — This may follow the acute 

 form or come on insidiously. First there is some swelling of a 

 fetlock, usually a hind one, and a round, hard, nut-like mass 

 may be felt which gi^adually softens, bursts, and discharges the 

 the characteristic serous or glairy matter. The lymphatics 

 leading up from it meanwhile become corded, and farcy-buds 

 appear along their course. Or the round, pea-like buds appear- 

 first on the inner side of the hock, or on some other part of the 

 body, soften, burst, and discharge before any cording of the 

 Ivmphatics c^n be felt, -i- 



