360 The Diseases of Animals 
between the nostrils, and in the false nostril. In bad 
cases, these ulcers may perforate or “eat through” the 
septum. The mucous membrane, instead of being a 
healthy rose-pink, becomes a dull lead or dusky slate 
color. The lymphatic glands under the jaw and be- 
tween the jaw-bones enlarge, are often tender, and are 
usually adherent to the adjacent tissues, or “grown fast 
to the bone,” as it is commonly expressed. These glands 
rarely gather and break, as they do in distemper. 
When they do suppurate, as in bad cases of glanders, 
they are difficult to heal. As glanders progresses, the 
horse gets “out of condition,” the coat “stares,” and 
there is a general debilitated appearance. There is often 
a profuse discharge of water-like urine. Horses with 
chronic cases of glanders may live and work for years 
without showing serious symptoms of the disease; but 
all the time they are scattering the germs of the disease, 
and, without exciting suspicion, often causing the death 
of many other horses. 
In farey, the germs of glanders attack the skin and 
lymphatic glands. This disease is most frequently seen 
in the region of the hind legs, and first appears as a 
small firm bunch, or several bunches, in the skin. 
These may attain the size of a hickory nut, and after: 
a time may break and discharge an amber fluid mixed 
with pus, that dries about the sore. These bunches, or 
sores, commonly ealled “farey buds,” are difficult to 
heal. They often spread and become large raw sores. 
The glands on the inside of the hind legs, together 
with the ducts connecting them, enlarge and become 
tender, and the hind legs swell. Farey may run into 
