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blood-stained fluid. The glands under the jaw enlarge and soon form 

 abscesses and burst. Acute glanders is rapidly fatal, and when the lungs 

 are much affected, death generally occurs before the lapse of three or 

 four hours. 



Chronic glanders has special characteristics distingushing it from the 

 acute form. It may continue for many months without obviously affecting 

 the general health of the animal. It mainly differs from the acute variety 

 in that, while the constitutional symptoms are more trivial and variable, the 

 local changes in different parts are more important and numerous. The 

 chronic form is more liable to develop constitutional symptoms at the later 

 than in the earlier stages. Usually there is a discharge from one or both 

 nostrils and this is never absent when nodules and ulcers are formed in the 

 lining membrane of the nose. The discharge, at first like that of common 

 cold, gradually becomes thicker and pasty, and has a tendenc)' to adhere 

 round the nostrils. The glands under the jaw enlarge. They are somewhat 

 painful and tender, but gradually become hardened and fixed to the jaw and 

 •distinctly nodulated. Chronic glanders is liable to develop acute symptoms 

 suddenly, especially during the later stages. 



Farcy is a form or variety of glanders. It occurs as a result of 

 inoculation with the diseased matter of glanders or farcy, or from infection, 

 and according to some it may arise de ?iovo, as the result of debilitating 

 influences and bad sanitary conditions, which certainly predispose animals 

 to attack. 



In acute farcy there is shivering and a rise of temperature as in glanders, 

 but this form is especially characterised by local swellings, generally confined 

 to the extremities. At first a limb becomes enlarged, hot and painful, and 

 there is marked lameness. When the swelling subsides "farcy buds," or 

 little lumps, and enlarged veins and cords are left behind on the limb. These 

 little buds afterwards become ulcers, and discharge a blood-stained creamy 

 fluid, and the veins and cords may also ulcerate. Sometimes in these cases 

 acute glanders is developed. Now^ we must carefully distinguish such cases 

 as these from those called "weed," which is of a totally different nature, and 

 in which such buds and ulcers are not formed. 



Chronic farcy differs from the acute form only in intensity and duration. 

 It is a very common type of the disease, and is more amenable to treatment 

 than the other varieties. The special characteristics of it are local growths. 

 Nodules are formed in various parts where the skin is thin, as over the face, 

 jaws, throat, and along the neck, forearm, and flank, and they afterwards 

 soften and discharge an unhealthy fluid. 



Finally, we must say a few words with regard to the treatment of the 

 forms of glanders and farcy. Animals affected with any of the various forms 

 are in the interests of the community destroyed, according to the provisions 

 of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, in order to prevent the further 

 spread of this loathsome disease. Mild cases of chronic farcy are sometimes 

 isolated and treated medicinally. There is in some cases difficulty in settling 

 the true nature of the disease. The attendant must ])e very careful not 



