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characteristic, dirty, gray bottom and ragged edges, and pour out a 

 viscons oily discharge like the chancres themselves. 



The essential symptoms of farcy are the above; the luiton, the 

 clumcre, tlie cord, and the discharge. ^Ve have in addition to these 

 symptoms a certain number of accessory symptoms, Avhich, while not 

 diagnostic in themselves, are of great service in aiding the diagnosis 

 in cases where the eruption takes place in small quantities, and when 

 the ulcers are not characteristic. 



Epistaxis, or bleeding from the nose without previous work or other 

 apparent cause, is one of the frequent concomitant symptoms in 

 glanders, and such a hemorrhage from the nostrils should always be 

 regarded with suspicion. The animal with farcy frequently develops 

 a cough, resembling much that which we find in heaves— a short, dry, 

 aborted, hacking cough, with little or no discharge from the nostrils! 

 AVith this we find an irregular movement of the flanks, and on auscul- 

 tation of the lungs we find sibilant or at times a few mucous rales. 

 Another common symptom is a sudden swelling of one of the hind 

 legs; it is suddenly found swollen in the region of the cannon, the 

 enlargement extending below to the pastern and above as high as 

 the stifle. This swelling is hot and painful to the touch, and renders 

 the animal stiff and lame. On pressure with the finger the swelling 

 can be indented, but the pits so formed soon fill up again on removal 

 of the pressure. In severe cases we may have ulceration of the. skin, 

 and serum pours out from the surface, resembling the oozing which 

 we have after a blister or in a case of grease. This swelling is not to 

 be confounded with the stocking in lymphatic horses, or the oedema 

 which we have in chronic heart or in kidney trouble, as in the last 

 the swelling is cool and not painful and the pitting on pressure 

 remains for some time after the latter is withdrawn. It is not to be 

 confounded with greasy heels. In these the disease commences in 

 the neighborhood of the pastern and gradually extends up the leg, 

 rarely passing beyond the neighborhood of the hock. The swolleli 

 leg in glandei-s almost invariably swells for the entire length in a 

 single night, or within a very short period. When greasy heels are 

 complicated by lymphangitis we ha\e a condition very much resem- 

 bling that of farcy. The swelled leg in farcy is frequently followed 

 by an outbreak of farcy buttons and ulcers over its surface. In the 

 entire horse the testicles are frequently swollen, hot and sensitive 

 to the touch, but they have no tendency to suppuration. The acute 

 inflammation is rapidly followed by the specific induration, which 

 corresponds to the local lesions in other parts of the body. 



Chronic farcy in the ass and mule is an excessively rare condition, 

 but som etimes occurs. 



Chronic ghmders.—ln chronic glanders we have the same train 

 of inflammatory phenomena, varying in appearance from those of 

 chronic farcy only by the difference of the tissues in which they are 



