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side of the face, and bringing on a condition from which the ani¬ 
mal never recovers—a metastatic pneumonia, an extensive 
arthritis and a purulent infection soon converting the suffering 
patient into a subject for a post-mortem. 
(To be continued .) 
GLANDERS. 
By Veterinarius. 
A Contribution for the Prize offered by the U. S. Veterinary Medical Association 
for Papers published in the American Veterinary Review. 
(Continued from page 114.) 
Importance of Glanders Bacilli as an aid in Diagnosis. 
m 
The diagnosis of glanders is an easy matter when the visible 
phenomena are present in optima forma. The whitish-green and 
viscid secretion flowing from one or both nasal cavities and drying 
in a thin yellowish crust on the alse nasi; the presence of irregu¬ 
larly colored ulcers with a yellowish lardaceous base and tumefied 
circumferences in those parts of the nasal mucosa which are open 
to clinical observation; the irregularly swollen condition of the 
inter-maxillary glands, with their frequent adhesion to the neigh¬ 
boring osseous tissue, the ulcerations of farcy and the indurated 
lymphatics leading from them to the corresponding lymph glands; 
the swollen condition of one or more limbs, and, in stallions, 
sometimes of the testes; the rough appearance of the hair; the 
short, painful respiration which frequently occurs, and the emation 
so often present, are all symptoms which cannot ^scape the atten¬ 
tion of anyone at all initiated in the phenomena "of this dreaded 
equine malady. 
In other cases, however, it often happens that this whole group 
of symptoms may be almost entirely absent, or only one or another 
may be present in a manner not conducive to the excitement of 
grave suspicions. Horses are frequently seen in which the nasal 
secretion is very slight and no ulcerations can be seen on the nasal 
mucous membrane; or, there may be an ulcer on the skin which 
shows no tendency to cicatrization, but without the cord-like con¬ 
ditions of the lymphatics being present; or, there may be the least 
