202 THE VETERINARY DOCTOR. 
Symptoms.—The symptoms are full pulse, about sixty; breathing 
about twenty; irregular swellings of various size, consisting of blood, un- 
der or in the skin, especially in the legs, becoming enormous at the hocks, 
ending short at the elbow-joints and stifle; the nostrils and lips are swollen, 
hard and shiny; the chambers of the nose so far closed 
as to cause difficulty in breathing; nasal membrane 
very red and marked with purple spots of varying 
size, similar spots being on the inside of the lips, which, 
when pricked, give out blood. Soon the pulse be- 
comes weaker and the urine high-colored; swellings 
enlarge and extend to the belly, flanks and other parts; 
eyes blood-shot; the nasal membrane blackens; the spots. 
become ulcerous, with shreds of tissue hanging out; 
po Walon bloody fluid, perhaps mixed with water, flows 
BH AGIER: from the nose; the swellings on some parts become 
cold, very hard and insensible, break off, and leave raw sores; a fluid stands 
on the hair, principally under the belly; blood passes with the urine, or in 
clots; the horse is weak, is unable to move the swollen legs, and eats little, 
perhaps nothing. 
It should be observed that in Weed the femoral vein is enlarged and 
tender, but not in purpura hemorrhagica, and that in the former the 
swelling on the inside of the thigh is hard and not elastic. Again, in Glan- 
ders and Farcy there are swollen lips and nose, with a brown, pussy dis- 
charge from the nostrils, and ulceration of the dividing wall of the nose; 
but they are not attended by the sudden swelling of both thighs, without 
cording, and of the muscles of the chest; nor by the purple blotches inside 
the lips and gums; nor by the dark purple shade of the nasal membrane 
after the small red spots. These distinctive features should be carefully noted, 
for purpura hemorrhagica is for some strange reason not unfrequently 
mistaken for farcy and glanders. 
TREATMENT.—Kali bichromicum has proved to be a most valuable 
remedy, especially when sloughing of the mucous membrane of the nose 
or parts of the skin takes place, and when pimples appear on the skin. 
It may be given every three hours at first, the intervals being lengthened 
as the animal improves. Among the best remedies for this disorder we 
may mention ergot and arsenic, the latter being suitably given in the form 
of Fowler’s Solution. As soon as the inflammatory symptoms subside, or 
even in the start, when the malignant symptoms are very marked, these 
two should be given, the former in doses of ten to fifteen drops alternated 
with five-drop doses of the latter every two hours. Wash the sores with 
a solution of carbolic acid or chloride of zinc, so far diluted as to avoid irri- 
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