158 THB HORSB. 



coDjes from the ulcers and resembles the discharge of strangles or simple 

 inflammatory diseases. 



The eruption of the ulcers and discharge soon cause an irritation of 

 the neighboring lymphatics; and in the intermaxillary space, deep 

 insi4e of the jaws, we find an enlargement of the glands, which 

 for the first few days may seem soft and cedematous, but which 

 rapidly becomes confined to the glands, these being from the size 

 of an almond to that of a small bunch of berries, exceedingly hard 

 and nodulated. The enlargement of the glands is found high up on 

 the inside of the jaws, firmly adherent to the base of the tongue. It is 

 not to be confounded with the swelling, puffy, cedematous, and not to 

 be separated from the skin and subcutaneous connective tissues, 

 which we find in strangles, in laryngitis, and in other simple inflamma- 

 tory troubles. 



These glands bear a great resemblance to the hard, indurated glands 

 which we find in connection with the collection of pus in the sinuses; 

 but in the latter disease the glands have not the nodulated feel which 

 they have in glanders. With the glands we find indurated cords, feel- 

 ing like balls of tangled wire or twine, fastening the glands together. 

 The essential symptoms of glanders are the tubercle, the chancre, the 

 glands, and the discharge. With the development of the tubercles on 

 the respiratory tract, according to their number and the amount of 

 eruption which they cause, we may have a cough which resembles that 

 of a coryza, a laryngitis, a bronchitis, or a broncho-pneumonia, accord- 

 ing, to the location of the lesions. In chroiii: glanders we have the 

 same accessory symptoms which we have in chronic farcy, the hem- 

 orrhage of the nose, the swelling of the legs, the chronic cough, and in 

 the entire horse the swelling of the testacies. 



On healing, the chancres on the mucous membranes leave small, 

 whitish, star-shaped scars, hard and indurated to the touch, and which 

 remain for almost an indefinite time. The chancres heal and the other 

 local symptoms disappear, with the exception of the enlargement of the 

 glands, and we find these so diminished in size that they are scarcely 

 perceptible on examination. During the subacute attacks, with a mini- 

 mum quantity of local troubles, in chronic glanders and chronic farcy 

 the animal rarely shows any amount of fever, but does have a general 

 depraved appearance; it loses flesh and becomes hide l?ound; the skin 

 becomes dry and the hairs stand on end. There js cachexia, however, 

 which resembles greatly that of any chronic, organic trouble, but is not 



