6tV VETERINARY HOMCEOPATHY. 



dark leaden hue, on which will be observable, very shortly, small 

 patches about the size of a pea, which to the eye seem to contain 

 a yellow fluid, the margins of which are surrounded by gray zone 

 this 3'et again encircled by a red areola; after a few days these 

 pimples or patches develop into open ulcers with ragged edges 

 which discharge from their centres a sticky matter (pus). The 

 glands between the jaws are swollen and hard, and after a time 

 become attached to the surrounding parts and immovable; these 

 glands are as a rule very tender, and the horse does not like to 

 have them pressed upon or squeezed; the lips and outer wings of 

 the nose become swollen, and upon them ulcers sometimes form 

 which discharge purulent matter; in consequence of the swelling- 

 and thickening of the upper internal parts of the nose and some- 

 times the larynx of the throat, the breathing is considerably 

 interfered with and assumes a snuffling character w hich is gen- 

 erally accompanied by a cough, soft and painful; if not arrested 

 in the earlier stages the lungs are rapidly implicated and symp- 

 toms of bronchitis and pneumonia supervene, after which the 

 horse soon gives evidence of rapid decay, the appetite fails and the 

 breathing is more distressing; the legs conmience to swell, the 

 cords and buds of farcy appear and the animal speedily succumbs. 

 The symptoms of chronic glanders, by reason of the subtle 

 invasion of the virus are more slowly developed and not so easy 

 of recognition; the disease may be thoroughl}' established in the 

 horse's system for many months before the more obvious symp- 

 toms declare themselves; all the same, however, the horse so 

 affected is a centre capable of disseminating the virulent poison; 

 these occult cases, as a rule, are affected chiefly in the lungs, and 

 it has frequently been a matter causing us no little surprise on 

 making a post mortem examination that the horse had not given 

 more distinct evidence during life of the pathological conditions 

 that had evidently been progressing for months in the lungs, and 

 at the same time no visible symptoms had presented themselves; 

 we once knew a case of this sort which was productive of the most 

 painful consequences to the owner and his friends: the gentleman 

 owned a horse that was in regular hard work; he purchased a 

 three year old filly and put her into the next standing to the old 

 .horse; the following day after her purchase he thought she would 

 be better for an alterative ball, and administered it himself, in doing 



