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ated too high, to be seen ; by the same viscid discharge, 

 but usually much less tenacious than in the acute form ; 

 by the same hard, comparatively insensible nodular glanda 

 on the inner side of the jaw-bone ; and a cough, which, 

 however, is much more rare. Excepting at the very out- 

 set, the animal usually appears to be in the best of health, 

 with the apparently insignificant drawback of the nasal 

 discharge, and hence he is often kept and used tiU he con- 

 taminates a number of horses or even men. The case is 

 easily recognized unless where the ulcers are invisible or 

 the enlarged glands removed. It is sometimes needful to 

 inoculate a useless animal to decide as to the nature of 

 the malady. It usually proves fatal to the inoculated 

 animal ia about ten days. 



Symptoms of Acute Farcy. The premonitory symp- 

 toms resemble those of acute glanders, of which it is but 

 another manifestation. The local symptoms consist in 

 thickening of the lymphatic vessels, which feel like stout 

 cords, painful to pressure ; and the formation of rounded 

 inflammatory swellings (farcy-buds) along the course of 

 these corded lymphatics. There foUow ulceration of these 

 buds, raw sores, discharging a glairy, unhealthy pus, and 

 dropsical engorgement of the limb or other part affected. 

 It is usually seen to follow the line of the veins on the 

 inner side of the hind or fore limb, but may appear on any 

 part. The cording usually extends from the feet toward 

 the body, and is most likely to be confounded with lym- 

 phangitis in which the swelling begins high up in the 

 groin. It usually proves fatal, becoming complicated -svith 

 glanders before death. 



Symptoms of Chronic Farcy. This may foUow the acute 

 form or come on insidiously. First there is some swelling 

 of a fetlock, usually a hind one, and a round, hard, nut-like 

 mass may be felt which gradually softens, bursts and dis- 

 charges the characteristic serous or glairy matter. The 

 lymphatics leading up from it meanwhile become corded, 

 and farcy-buds appear along their course. Or the round, 



