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Case xxiii. 



Black stall ion, 10 years old, height 137 cm., observed during 

 January-February, 1 893. 



Clinical rcina7-ks : — Anamnesis not know n. Status pi-acscns 

 was as fellows ; — The right posterior extremit)' swollen and 

 elephantiac. From the thigh down to the fetlock of the same 

 extremity, showed extended ulceration covered with purulent 

 haemorrhagic exsudation, and the picture was the same as 

 HimusJii, — another skin affection of the horse, which is also 

 common in Japan. By close examination we found, in the 

 ulcerated surface and the neighboring parts, many characteristic 

 nodes and abscesses as found in Japanese farcj-. The nodes 

 were crater-like with a central excavation, which was filled 

 up with a glutinous, fibrino-purulent coagulum. On the 

 periphery of the ulcerated surface, were abscesses, containing 

 a dim fluid mixed \\ith cheesy particles. Saccharouiyces was 

 abundantly found in the pus and morbid tissues. 



This horse received 3 injections of inallein : to the result of 

 this injection we will revert later on. Afterwards the process 

 gradually extended over the pubic and inguinal region ; death 

 resulted on February 20th ; dissected on the 22nd. 



Postviortcvi appearance : — The right porterior extremity 

 showed extensive ulceration and was much swollen. Many 

 nodes and abscesses, hazel-walnut in size, were found in the 

 inguinal and laubic regions. On transection, the thickened part 

 of the said extremity showed tight fibrous structure, in which 

 numerous medullary nodules were embedded : the process, how- 

 ever, reached neither the pcriost, nor the articulation nor the 

 sheath of the tendon. In the left nose cavity miliary till 

 linseed-sized nodules, seated in the parenchym of mucosa ; 8 

 nodules on the turbinated bone, 12 on the septum, 16 on 

 the ethmoidal shells ; the right nasal cavit}' free from affec- 

 tion. In the larynx a miliary nodule on the inferior side of liga- 

 incntuni vocalc sinistrnm. Superficial and deep inguinal and 

 crural glands on both sides, and the right lumbar gland much 

 swollen, the crural gland being 6 cm. long, 3 cm. thick and 

 5 cm. broad ; the cut surface looking partly hyperplastic and 

 partly medullary. Intermaxillary gland was a little enlarged 

 and showed on transection a pea-sized abscess filled with thick 



