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ropy, caseo-purulent exudate is usually discliarged. The ten- 

 dons in the affected region are usually irregularly enlarged and 

 very sensitive. According to Hess the tendons of the M.ext. 

 carpi radialis and of the M.ext.digit.pedis longus are most fre- 

 quently involved. 



In the skin and in the subcutaneous connective tissue there 

 occur, in rare instances, firm tumors the size of a hazelnut con- 

 taining cheesy or mortar-like masses in one or more locations. 

 Lazace observed a case in which 30 such nodules occurred in 

 the shoulder and arm while the remaining organs of the body 

 were healthy. These nodules may break spontaneously, leaving 

 fistulae which heal only with the aid of surgical treatment and 

 then leave shiny radiating scars (according to Vigadi this 

 affection resembles tuberculosis cutis coUiquativa hom. in ap- 

 pearance). In exceptional cases a considerable nodular enlarge- 

 ment of the tail results from tubercular infection (Moule & 

 Nocard). 



Acute miliary tuberculosis runs its course attended with 

 severe febrile and general symptoms, the true cause of which 

 can not usually be recognized except in animals already known 

 or suspected to be tuberculous. The symptoms consist of ex- 

 treme dullness, rapid emaciation, continuous or remittent but 

 invariably high fever, increased heart activity and weak but 

 rapid pulse also respiratory difficulty without recognizable per- 

 cussion dullness in the lungs. Animals thus affected usually 

 die in the course of a week. In a few cases symptoms of acute 

 meningitis are observed (incoordination of the extrinsic muscles 

 of the eyes, nystagmus, unequal pupils, opisthotonus). 



Tuberculosis of goats and sheep. Thus far only few clinical 

 cases have been observed. Mathis and Leblanc observed, in 

 a goat four years of age, emaciation, coarse cough, accelerated 

 and labored breathing, bloody mucous discharge from the nose, 

 bronchial breathing and rales upon auscultation of the lungs, 

 and pericardial friction sounds. Edgar described a similar 

 ease. In a goat that became sick one month after parturition, 

 Hess observed loss of appetite, frequent, moist, short and pain- 

 ful cough, abdominal respiration, rapid decrease in flow of milk 

 but normal temperature throughout. In a goat with well de- 

 veloped pulmonary tuberculosis Schroeder observed that the 

 udder was also affected and transformed into a nodulated pain- 

 less tumor as large as a man's head and as hard as a stone. 

 Nocard saw a similar case. 



Tuberculosis in sheep always runs a chronic course and 

 usually manifests itself in the form of a gradually progressing 

 pulmonary affection. As a result of enlargement of the thoracic 

 lymph glands bloating is common. Other superficial lymph 

 glands also become occasionally involved (Mayer). 



Tuberculosis of Horses. The first symptom of pulmonary 

 tuberculosis in horses is an occasional dry, or slightly moist, 



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