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defy any and all the measures we can bring to bear against it, 
and it is also observable that the very remedies which prove 
successful in one case will sometimes have the very contrary 
effect in another. As the disease advances, the sublingual 
lymphatic glands increase in size, the appetite fails, the con- 
dition wastes, a cough, hollow and cavernous, is heard, the 
patient becomes hidebound, and more and more dull, evincing 
very considerable pain in his head; the Schneiderian membrane 
becomes of a slightly violet hue from venous blood in the 
membrane, or is blanched, its fibres softened, flabby, and pale 
coloured, and thinly suffused with a yellow serosity or aeriform 
fluid, which sometimes is frothy and spumous; the integument 
upon the angle of the mouth, alae, and false nostrils is cor- 
rugated and drawn up, and a quivering motion is frequentty 
perceived in it ; a great tendency to coldness of the nose, face, 
and ears exists, and occasionally there is the appearance upon 
the membrane of numerous ecchymose spots, with patches of 
redness. The case is now assuming a more dangerous 
aspect; the discharge becomes purulent in its character, 
acquires tenacity, and clings like glue about the hairs that 
fringe the nostrils. As the disease progresses, the membrane 
becomes more and more unhealthy in appearance ; small 
straw-coloured stars present themselves underneath it and 
within the folds of the alas nasi, and there appears to be 
a virus, or venomous matter, rising like vesicles, surrounded 
by an areola, on it. These are ulcers in embryo. Still the 
case is not yet one of glanders, nor past recovery. I have 
had them in this state, and all the unfavorable symptoms 
have yielded and complete recovery resulted. But unless a 
change takes place at once for the better, these small malig- 
nant vesicles will burst, and foul, dingy-pink, bloody ulcers 
appear. The animal’s snuffling foretells the scabby state 
high up in his head, and the swelling about the lips and 
nostrils will indisputably proclaim that farcy, as well as 
glanders, has supervened; and it is now our duty to destroy 
our patient. The disease may assume this character in a 
week or ten days, or it may be three months after the attack 
of catarrh, and in some cases even years. 
Treatment . — Having ascertained the existence of the evil, 
and thoroughly made ourselves acquainted with its true 
nature, we must now take into consideration the treatment 
to be adopted. Presuming the catarrhal affection to have 
existed for ten days or a fortnight, all the febrile symptoms 
to have subsided, the cough almost gone, also the soreness 
of the throat, and the appetite returned, but the discharge 
from the nostrils continuing, it is now time to change our 
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