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horse in apparently good health and at his usual work. In the second 
stage, the remaining nostril becomes much affected, the discharge is greater 
and is mucous and sticky, adhering to the edge of the nostrils; the lym- 
phatic glands beneath the jaw are enlarged, first on the side first affected, 
then on both sides, are tender and hard, and stick close to the jaw. In the 
third stage, the discharge from the nostrils increases, 
is hard, yellow, perhaps blood-streaked, of offensive 
odor and mingled with pus; blood sometimes comes. 
from the nostril; the mucous membrane of the nose 
‘has ulcers with ragged edges and low centers, which 
are marked by swollen veins running from them in 
all directions; the sores spread back to the throat;, 
the lower eyelid becomes diseased, slightly swollen, 
asmall discharge of matter coming from the corner 
of the eye; after a time, loss of appetite, strength, 
i reine gegen flesh and spirits; the swollen glands under the jaw 
brane. 2, Membrane with become more tender and adhere closely to the bone; 
skin “ hide-bound;” legs, sheath and testicles swell 
during the day, becoming reduced at night; lameness; the hair turns the 
wrong way; ulcers in various parts of the body. These stages will be 
quite well marked in most cases. 
Strangles, pneumonia, distemper, and other disorders are also marked 
by the sticky discharge, nasal ulcers and swelling of the glands beneath 
the jaw, but usually show these symptoms about the same time, thus differ- 
ing from glanders. In the last also these are slow and eventually fatal, 
while in the other cases they are acute, rapid, and then subside. In catarrh 
the discharge from the nose, which in glanders is more marked in one nos- 
tril, is free in both nostrils, with prominent fever-symptoms. In lung- 
troubles some of the symptoms of glanders appear, but in the latter there 
is rarely any cough, while in the former a cough is nearly or quite always 
present. 
Symptoms of Harcy.—On the inside of one of the legs or thighs, on 
the thin skin of the neck or lips, or on the glands, may be a sore which will 
afterward grow into a hot, painful “farcy bud,” at first hard, then soft 
and containing pus. This sore will burst and present a depressed center, a 
hard, ragged edge, with discharges of pus; the connecting lymphatics be- 
come inflamed, hard and corded, with tumors of varying size along them. 
Though at first confined to one leg, the tumors spread to other parts, reach- 
ing the head and throat. Then the skin becomes dropsical, as also the leg, 
especially near the breast. After a time the joints give forth a sound as if 
the bones were slipping in the sockets. One is apt to confuse farcy with 
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