Cutaneous Glanders. 



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persists while nodes and ulcers subse(|uentl,y develop in the skin and 

 siibcntaneous connective tissue. 



Glanders of tlie bones is rare and when ol)served it is 

 usually in the form of spindle-shaped, painless enlargements 

 of the ribs. deDoes observed tiie disease in one of the meta- 

 tarsal bones, a painful swelling extending from the hoof to 

 the tarsus having appeared after the operation of shoeing and 

 becoming hard as stone in the course of a month, but it subse- 

 quently subsided and left only an enlargement the size of a 



Vig. 119. Cutaneous Vltindcrfs (Fare)/). Xodes and Stvaiids of Lyiu]>h Vessels. 



dollar. Affection of the joints with symptoms of moderate pain 

 and diffuse swelling is equally rare. 



In male animals a glanderous inflamnmtion of the testes, 

 in mares a similar inflammation of the udder (Schmidt) may 

 ))e observed in connection with other symptoms. 



In the line of general symptoms distur1)ances of nutrition 

 usually make themselves manifest before tlie disease has ad- 

 vanced much; even in the latent stage of the affection. In 

 other cases, especially in pulmonary glanders, tlie genei-al uutri- 



