MYCOTIC I.YMPHANGITIS : EPIZOOTIC 

 I^YMPHANGITIS. 



Geographical distribution and nature : Japan, China, India, Philippines, 

 Africa, Bngland, Ireland, etc., Northern and Southern Europe ; caseating 

 nodules in skin, subcutem, in mucosae and internal organs. In horse, skin 

 nodules, and glandular abscesses, with thick ovoid refrangent bacterium ; 

 saccharomyces (Hitt) ; swellings first local, then multiple, and general, 

 extending along lymph vessels to glands ( Hitt) ; along air-passages to lungs, 

 from prepuce or scrotum to peritoneum ( Hitt), or from conjunctiva to other 

 parts in the orbit (Caparini and Ferner). In cattle, multiple, subcutaneous 

 nodules — hazlenut to walnut, isolated, hard, painless. Suppurate slowly. 

 Same saccharomyces (Tokishige, Nocard) May invade lungs with fatal 

 result in a year. Malleiu test gives no reaction. Treatment : actively 

 antiseptic ; open, curette, pack with ahtiseptic gauze, sublimate bandages ; 

 internally, tonics, antiseptics. 



Synonyms : Lymphangiti.s Saccharomycotica (Farcinoides : 

 Epizootica : Ulcerosa): African Farcy : Farcy in Cattle, Japanese 

 Farcy, River Farcy, Algerian Farcy. 



Horses (and cattle) in certain countries (Japan, China, Sweden, 

 Finland, France, Algiers, Philippines, S. Africa, England, Ire- 

 land) are subject to a chronic lymphangitis resembling cutaneous 

 glanders, but associated with the development of fungi in the 

 nodular, caseating swellings in the skin, subcutem, in mucosae 

 and in internal organs. 



Nocard describes the affection in the horse as characterized by 

 red exuberant skin noditles (buttons, boils), which burst and dis- 

 charge a thick, creamy, yellowish or bloody pus. The surround- 

 ing lymph plexus swells up into corded lines, with, at intervals 

 nodules or abscesses. The infection extends to and implicates 

 the lymph glands and general pyaemia may follow. The thick 

 ovoid refrangent, pathogenic, bacterium stains in Gram's solu- 

 tion. 



In Northern Europe and Asia, Southern Europe and especially 

 France and Italy an analagous affection is described by Rivolta, 

 Claudio-Fermi, Aruch, Tokishige and Nocard and L,eclainche. 

 Tokishige and Hitt attributes this to saccharomyces, farcimi- 

 nosus (cryptococcus) Fermi and Auroch say it does not ferment 

 sugar, so tlie older name of Cryptococcus of Rivolta is more ap- 

 propriate. The slightly ovoid cells are grouped in zoogloea form, 

 and are easily recognized by the refringent appearance of the 

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