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blood-stained fluid. The glands under the jaw enlarge and soon form 
abscesses and burst. Acute glanders is rapidly fatal, and when the lungs 
are much affected, death generally occurs before the lapse of three or 
four hours. 
Chronic glanders has special characteristics distingushing it from the 
acute form. It may continue for many months without obviously affecting 
the general health of the animal. It mainly differs from the acute variety 
in that, while the constitutional symptoms are more trivial and variable, the 
local changes, in different parts are more important and numerous. The 
chronic form is more liable to develop constitutional symptoms at the later 
than in the earlier stages. Usually there is a discharge from one or both 
nostrils, and this is never absent when nodules and ulcers are formed in the 
lining membrane of the nose. The discharge, at first like that of common 
cold, gradually becomes thicker and pasty, and has a tendency to adhere 
round the nostrils. The glands under the jaw enlarge. They are somewhat 
painful and tender, but gradually become hardened and fixed to the jaw and 
distinctly nodulated. Chronic glanders is liable to develop acute symptoms 
suddenly, especially during the later stages. 
Farcy is a form or variety of glanders. It occurs as a ‘result of 
inoculation with the diseased matter of glanders or farcy, or from infection, 
and according to some it may arise de ovo, as the result of debilitating 
influences and bad sanitary conditions, which certainly predispose animals 
to attack. 
In acute farcy there is shivering and a rise of temperature as in glanders, 
but this form is especially characterised by local swellings, generally confined 
to the extremities. At first a limb becomes enlarged, hot and painful, and 
there is marked lameness. When the swelling subsides “farcy buds,” o 
little lumps, and enlarged veins and cords are left behind on the limb. Thee 
little buds afterwards become ulcers, and discharge a blood-stained creamy 
fluid, and the veins and cords may also ulcerate. Sometimes in these cases 
acute glanders is developed. Now we must carefully distinguish such cases 
as these from those called ‘* weed,” which is of a totally different nature, and 
in which such buds and ulcers are not formed. 
Chronic farcy differs from the acute form only in intensity and duration. 
It is a very common type of the disease, and is more amenable to treatment 
than the other varieties. The special characteristics of it are local growths. 
Nodules are formed in various parts where the skin is thin, as over the face, 
jaws, throat, and along the neck, forearm, and flank, and they afterwards 
soften and discharge an unhealthy fluid. 
Finally, we must say a few words with regard to the treatment of the 
forms of glanders and farcy. Animals affected with any of the various forms 
are in the interests of. the community destroyed, according to the provisions 
of the Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, in order to prevent the further 
spread of this loathsome disease. Mild cases of chronic farcy are sometimes 
isolated and treated medicinally. There is in some cases difficulty in settling 
the truc nature of the disease. The attendant must be very careful not 
