288 GLANDERS AND FARCY (oR NOT) ? 
be produced in so short a time as a fortnight ; and that death 
cannot take place in so short a time as in the horses just 
described. This circumstance is creating much interest in 
this neighbourhood. The purchaser of the supposed glan- 
dered horse has brought an action against the seller for 
damages sustained. From what I have stated, will you be 
kind enough to inform me if these horses were glanaered ? 
Could glanders be produced in so short a time as a fortnight ? 
And also be kind enough to inform me the characteristics 
necessary to distinguish glanders in an acute and chronic 
form. — T. S., V. S., Saffron Walden. 
[The above account is extracted from The North British 
Agriculturist / and the following is the answer given to it.] 
The most unequivocal and unmistakeable symptom of 
glanders is ulceration of the mucous membrane inside the 
nose, and a profuse discharge of yellowish green, somewhat 
thin, and highly tenacious or sticky matter. We believe 
that no precise time can be assigned within which this disease 
may appear after its exciting cause has operated. We have 
known cases where glanders has begun and attained a highly 
aggravated form within a week ; and other instances occa- 
sionally come under the notice of the veterinarian w here the 
cause (such as contagion, for instance,) has been know n to 
act and excite the disease within a fortnight. Supposing, 
then, the purchased horse above mentioned to have been 
glandered, there is not anything in regard to the time w r ithin 
which the subsequent cases occurred, to render it in the 
slightest degree improbable that they caught the disease and 
died of glanders. No mention is made of ulceration, nor is 
there any mention of this symptom being looked for, so it 
may have been present. Then, again, the fact of suppurating 
tumours occurring in different parts of the body, renders it 
almost certain that farcy existed, and every practitioner is 
aware that farcy is a disease which differs from glanders in 
degree rather than in hind. The w hole catalogue of symptoms 
above given is so characteristic of glanders, and so inappli- 
cable to any other ordinary disease, as to induce our belief 
that glanders, in an acute form, was the cause of death in 
these cases. Acute glanders is characterised by a speedy 
loss of condition, and great loss of strength. There is always 
extensive ulceration of the nasal membrane, and a profuse 
discharge of thin, greenish, and sticky matter from the 
nostrils. The glands under the jaw r are swollen and knotty; 
lumps are frequently found arranged in lines along the skin 
(farcy), especially inside the thighs, over the jaw r , and along 
the sides of the neck. The throat is also often ulcerated, 
