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bleeding easily, with smooth borders injected and swollen, 
but not indurated, and secrete good matter. Most of the 
sores will heal and never conglomerate. The smaller sores 
will cover with a brown sticking crust, upon the removal of 
which I never noticed the wound to have the tendency to be¬ 
come larger in circumference or deeper at the bottom. The 
large abscesses on the muscles will, after being opened with 
the bistoury, often close and fill up again. The fluid running 
out of the abscesses in vessels always retains the same char¬ 
acter, unless farcy complications arrive, as will be shown later. 
These wounds generally undergo a healing process, and many 
will cicatrize in the first period of the disease, when the ani¬ 
mal is yet possessing his natural strength and vitality, while 
at a later stage general debility reducing the vital powers, re¬ 
tards and obstructs the cicatrizing process. Especially is this 
the case when the affection narrows the respiratory passages 
and seriously interferes with the proper aerization of the 
blood in the lungs. 
It has been observed in all cases that in a few days after 
the appearance of the first abscesses, more lumps will daily 
form on different parts of the body and pass through the vari¬ 
ous stages of tumors, abscesses and running sores, so that in 
a short time the animal is literally covered with cords, lumps, 
abscesses and suppurating wounds that give the most dis¬ 
gusting sight one could have of a living animal. 
Butin the meanwhile complications arise in the form of 
gangrene in the nasal membrane. This symptom very often 
appears before the outbreak on the skin and constitutes the 
second modus of eruption of this disease. 
At first there will be a light watery discharge for a lew 
days; nasal membrane is red, congested ; then a large brown 
crust will be seen sticking to the nasal septum, caused by the 
drying up of the matter secreted from the surface of a large 
wound ; the nasal discharge is heavy, white, foamy, watery, 
mixed with blood and serosity, of a bad odor or not, falling 
down without sticking to the borders of the nostrils. Inside 
of nasal cavity there will be discovered sores of various sizes, 
from that of a pea to that of two or three fingers, extending 
