130 MR. youatt’s veterinary lectures. 
Ulcers have rarely long appeared in the nostrils before the con¬ 
stitution becomes affected ; the coat stares; it has a peculiar pen- 
feathered appearance, scarcely ever seen in simple want of con¬ 
dition. There is a strange dryness and stiffness of the skin, and 
the hair comes off with the slightest touch ; the belly is tucked 
up to an extraordinary degree, and the strength rapidly declines; 
there is cough, difficult and painful; the inflammation or ulcer¬ 
ation has then travelled down the larynx and trachea, and the 
lungs are evidently affected. The breathing becomes difficult 
from another cause, the lining membrane of the nose is thick¬ 
ened by these inflammatory and ulcerative processes; the air- 
passage is obstructed and almost closed, and each act of respi¬ 
ration is accompanied by a hoarse roaring sound. There is a pe¬ 
culiar tenderness about the forehead ; the membrane lining the 
frontal sinuses is inflamed or ulcerated; the integument of the 
forehead becomes thickened, and gives an appearance of swelling; 
the whole head and face, and the muzzle particularly, enlarge. 
Farcy now is superadded to glanders, or glanders has degenerated 
into farcy, or rather, perhaps, more of the absorbents are in¬ 
volved. Little tumours now appear about the muzzle, and face, 
and neck, following the course of the veins (for these point out the 
direction of the absorbents), and the tumours rapidly ulcerate. 
Tumours, still pursuing the path of the absorbents, next appear 
on the inside of the thighs, and they are connected together b y 
a corded substance (this is the inflamed and enlarged lymphatic); 
and ulceration, rapidly spreading, soon follows the appearance of 
these buds. The deeper-seated absorbents are now affected; 
one or both of the hind legs swell tremendously, and become stiff*, 
hot, and tender. The loss of flesh and strength can now be 
marked every day; the membrane of the nose becomes of a 
dirty-livid colour; the membrane of the mouth is strangely pallid; 
the conjunctiva is infiltrated with a yellow fluid, like a sheep with 
the rot; the discharge from the nose becomes more profuse and 
insufferably offensive; the animal presents one mass of putre¬ 
faction, and at length dies exhausted. 
Enlargement of the Submaxillary Glands. — I have been de¬ 
lineating the usual succession of symptoms when ulceration 
has once appeared in the nostril; but, long ere that, possibly 
many a month before, there is another symptom whence the dis¬ 
ease took its name,—enlargement of the submaxillary glands. 
A portion of the fluid secreted from the membrane of the nose, 
altered in character by the peculiar inflammation there existing, 
is absorbed; and, as it is conveyed along the lymphatics, some 
of it passes through the glands, which thus become inflamed and 
enlarged : in fact, they sympathize with every inflammatory affec- 
