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The tumors upon the skin may suggest farcy, especially if 
there is enlargement of the glands and a discharge from the nose 
resembling that of glanders ; but the tumors are not of the cordy 
kind, and they exist in the dermis of the skin and not under it, 
unlike farcy buds, which, again, ulcerate readily, and are princi¬ 
pally situated on the legs. 
V. Prognosis .—This is always serious and doubtful; though 
if there is an early recognition of the disease, recovery is possi¬ 
ble. It is generally more serious in stallions than in mares, the 
disease being usually discovered earlier in the latter, and when 
they have already been infected, or when the secondary lesions 
manifest themselves. Authors who maintain the spontaniety of 
the disease, claim that the spontaneous form is more serious than 
that which results from contagion. 
The prognosis is, moreover, always uncertain; animals very ill 
may recover, while in others in which the disease seems to be of 
a mild type, it may rapidly assume serious complications and end 
fatally. As a rule, the disease always becomes more serious 
when in an advanced stage than when it is recent. 
VI. Pathological anatomy .—Besides the local lesions al¬ 
ready described, with their symptoms, the vaginal and uterine 
membranes are observed to be thickened and ecchymosed, and to 
have assumed a brown or grayish color, while the cavities of these 
organs contain a quantity of mueo-purulent substance, more or 
less abundant, of either a whitish, yellow or chocolate color, 
analagous to the discharge which escapes from the vulva during 
life. In some instances this liquid is present in quantities suffi¬ 
ciently large to distend the uterus to dimensions suggestive of a 
more or less advanced pregnancy. 
In the male there is infiltration of the cellular tissues of the 
sheath and of the scrotum, the latter becoming transformed into 
a dense, homogeneous, cartilaginous-looking mass. The mucous 
surface of the vesicula seminales is at times red or purplish, and 
contains a thick yellow, purulent-looking matter. The testicles 
are not always involved in the disease; when they are, there is 
a degree of atrophy in the middle of the sub-dartoic connective 
tissue, which is indurated or infiltrated with a yellowish serosity; 
