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emaciation set in. The ulceration in some cases extends to 

 the cartilages, and even the bones are sometimes implicated, 

 when occasional bleedings ensue. The tubercles increase in 

 the lungs ; cough is troublesome ; farcy buds appear in some 

 cases over the body, and he dies a disgusting and loathsome 

 spectacle. 



Other diseases have been mistaken for glanders ; symptoms 

 which are apt to mislead the uninitiated arise from the ex- 

 istence of diseased teeth, as occurred in a case of a valuable 

 gelding which was destroyed, supposed to be affected with 

 glanders, belonging to a gentleman near Aurora, York 

 county, and on examining the head, which was sent to us, it 

 was found to have been ulceration arising from a diseased 

 tooth. Professor Dick in his lectures relates several similar 

 cases. We have frequently had horses sent to us for exami- 

 nation said to have glanders, when in reality it was simply 

 nasal gleet, which recovered completely under treatment. 



In many cases the gland is not adherent to the bone, and 

 still genuine glanders exists ; on the other hand, the gland may 

 be adherent without glanders. Neither is much dependence 

 to be placed on the increased specific gravity of the discharge, 

 as in some cases of diseased teeth it wiU also sink to the 

 bottom in water. 



Farcy. — Farcy and glanders are essentially the same dis- 

 ease, and depending on the same specific poison in the blood, 

 but manifesting itself in a different locality. It often occurs 

 in connexion with glanders, but is also seen independent of 

 it, running into glanders as it progresses. 



Symptoms. — It usually affects the superficial absorbents of 

 the hind limbs in the groin, extending downwards on the inside 

 of the thigh, following the line of the lymphatics, also along the 

 absorbents of the neck and shoulders ; little tubercles or 

 farcy buds form, which in some cases become indurated and 



