GI.ANDERS OR FARCV. 15S 



their entire faces, including the nasal bones, were eaten away by rapid 

 ulceration. Tubercles were found in the lungs. 



The sheep and the goat are both capable of developing the disease. 

 The goat is more susceptible and frequently develops it by means of 

 the digestive tract, from its habit of eating droppings, rags, etc which 

 are found in the neighborhood of the stall. 



Horned cattle and barnyard fowls are absolutely exempt from attacks 

 of glanders, whether the virus is given to them by the digestive tract or 

 inoculated into their tissues. 



The previous reference to the existence of glanders under the two 

 forms more commonly differentiated as glanders and as farcy, and our 

 reference to the various conditions in which it may exist as acute, 

 chronic and latent, show that the disease may assume several different 

 phases. Without losing sight for a moment of the fact that all of these 

 varied conditions are identical in their origin and in their essence, for 

 convenience of study we may divide glanders into three classes: chronic 



FARCY, CHRONIC GLANDERS, and ACUTE FARCY GLANDERS. 



Chronic Parcy. In farcy the symptoms commence by formation 

 of little nodes on the under surface of the skin, which rapidly infringe 

 on the tissues of the skin itself. These nodes, which are known as 

 farcy "buds" and farcy "buttons," are from the size of a bullet to the 

 size of a walnut. They are hot, sensitive to the touch, at first elastic 

 and afterwards become soft; the tissue is destroyed, and infringing on 

 the substance of the skin the disease produces an ulcer, which is known 

 as a chancre. The ulcer is irregular in shape, with ragged edges which 

 overhang the sore; it has a gray, dirty bottom and the discharge is 

 sometimes thin and sometimes purulent; in either case it is mixed with 

 a viscious, sticky, yellowish material like the white of an egg in con- 

 sistency, and like olive oil in appearance. The discharge is almost diag- 

 nostic; it resembles somewhat the discharge which we have in greasy 

 heels and in certain attacks of lymphangitis, but to the expert the spe- 

 cific discharge is characteristic. The discharge accumulates on the hair 

 surrounding the ulcer and over its surface and dries, forming scabs 

 which become thicker by successive deposits on the undersurface until 

 they fall off, to be replaced by others of the satne kind; and the excess 

 of discharge may drop on the hairs below and form similar brownish 

 yellow crusts. The farcy ulcers may retain their specific form for ^ 

 considerable time— days or even weeks; but eventually the discharge 

 becomes purulent in character and assumes the appearance of healthy 



