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nected by swollen, beaded lymph vessels. They encreased and 

 suppurated much more slowly than in the horse. In three cows 

 microscopica,lly examined he found apparently the same branching 

 fungus (saccharomyces), as in the horse cases. The mortality is 

 about 10 per cent. Nocard, Pallin and Mettam failed to infect 

 cattle by inoculation from the horse. 



In \hs. farcy of the ox of Guadaloupe there form subcutaneous 

 nodular abscesses, with cordiform swelling of the lymph plexus 

 and trunks, often proving fatal in a year through extension to 

 the lungs. The abscess breaks, discharging whitish, creamy 

 or caseous, or grumous contents, containing a bacillus (Nocard) 

 streptothrix (MetchnikofI). The abscesses usually appear un- 

 der the sternum or belly and later extend to the thighs and legs. 

 In all such cases the mallein test is inoperative. 



Diagnosis. It is most likely to be confounded with farcy or, 

 if the upper air passages are affected, with glanders. It differs 

 in the absence of general ill-health, emaciation or unthrift, un- 

 less, in very advanced and generalized cases ; in the habitual 

 absence of fever ; in the hearty appetite ; in the redness and ex- 

 uberance of the granulations, and their tendency to heal under 

 antiseptics ; in the opaque, thick creamy character of the pus ; 

 in the absence of reaction to mallein ; in the presence of the 

 cryptococcus in abundance in the pus ; in the immunity under 

 inoculation of sheep, goats, dogs and above all Guinea pigs. 

 Tokishige claims the infection of cattle and the presence of the 

 cryptococcus in the lesions, but all inoculations of cattle else- 

 where have failed. 



Relapses and recurrences of the disease in the same animal 

 have been repeatedly noticed. 



The treatment of such cases should be actively antiseptic to 

 destroy the germ while still local. After opening and evacuating 

 the abscesses, excise or curette the diseased tissue, or destroy 

 with the actual cautery, pack the cavities with pledgets soaked 

 in tincture of iodine, iodized phenol, creolin, lysol, mercuric 

 chloride, or biniodide, zinc chloride, or copper sulphate, or dusted 

 with aristol, iodoform, or iodized starch. The surrounding swell- 

 ing, if any, may be painted with tincture of iodine, or covered 

 with cloths wet with a sublimate lotion or other antiseptic. 

 Pustules and corded lymphatics may be laid open, curetted and 



