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NATURE OF GLANDERS. 
of purulent matter variable in its aspect, and sometimes streaked 
with blood. We never find phlegmonous (laudable) pus in these 
small abscesses. 
Farcy-buds are evidently not seated within the principal lym- 
phatic vessels, and, consequently, have no determinate arrange- 
ment : we find them here and there ; in the greatest number, how- 
ever, where lymphatic vessels most abound. At one time they are 
superficial, at another deep-seated. And they are found in most of 
the organs of the body: in the muscles, in the tendons, in the peri- 
osteum, in the skin, in the testicles, in the lymphatic glands, in 
the lungs, in the mucous membranes, even in those of the digestive 
passages. 
On some occasions, either when the disease makes rapid pro- 
gress or the alteration in the fluids proves deep-seated, farcy-buds 
are soft from their first formation, and burst almost immediately. 
And then, the buds are not confined to any region in particular, 
but simultaneously appear all over the body. In this case, the 
fluid they contain is homogeneous in its aspect, sometimes limpid, 
oftener livid or muddy ; and this (latter) denotes deep-seated alter- 
ation of it. The blood, also, is strikingly changed. 
An attempt has been made to distinguish these farcy-buds from 
what are called real farc}^-buds ; the former not being so considered 
on account of their not being found to communicate with the lym- 
phatic vessels ; the vessels not being injectible through their cavi- 
ties. This, however, may arise from the extreme exility of the 
lymphatic vessels, or from their canals being plugged up. What 
induces Leblanc to regard these isolated buds as farcinous, is the 
frequent appearance in farcied horses of cords and buds of different 
sorts at one and the same time. 
In speaking of the alteration the lymphatic liquid undergoes in 
glandered and farcied horses, Leblanc considers it his duty to make 
known his opinion of the glanderous lesions that have been called 
tubercles , whether they exist upon the mucous membrane of the 
respiratory passages, or within the lungs, or the lymphatic glands, 
or an}' other organs. 
These little tubercular bodies have received divers denomina- 
tions : according to their aspect they have been distinguished into 
crude, soft, and encysted tubercles, and various have been the opi- 
nions entertained concerning their nature. According to Leblanc’s 
(and my own) notions of them, they present an analogy in physi- 
cal character to farcy-buds. Examination of the mucous membrane 
of the nose of a glandered horse will shew, in a certain stage, that 
it becomes thickened. And that this thickening, which is owing 
to an accumulation of fluids of a while or whitish-yellow colour, 
precedes the appearance of the tubercles, the same as tumefaction 
