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four weeks will open and form an ulcer. All these lesions 
pass through the same pathological modifications, and ac¬ 
quire, therefore, a perfectly uniform character common to all 
glanderous and farcinous lesions. It has been admitted by all 
veterinary authorities that the morbid element of glanders 
and farcy is deposited by nature in small spots or noduli, 
which are found in the skin (farcy), or in the mucous mem¬ 
brane of the respiratory organs, or in the tissue of the lungs 
or other organs (glanders), and cause a total degeneration of 
the local tissues, which always will mortify in one piece and 
then form an ulcer, (when in contact with the air), or become 
encysted (when in the viscera). The cellular tissue envelop¬ 
ing these noduli is at first inflamed, and in a few days becomes 
hard, dense, indurated, causing the adherence of all parts con¬ 
cerned, whether it be located around an ulcer, of either nasal 
cavity or skin, or around a cord, button, or any kind of tumor 
or gland. This is so reliable and constant a symptom, that 1 
would consider it as the infallible basis of all differential char¬ 
acters with other diseases, and state that whenever this indura¬ 
tion does not exist around an ulcer , button , cord , tumor or gland, 
there is not , nor can there be chronic glanders or farcy. 
The buttons have the size of a cent, hickory nut or olive. 
The lars:e ones are subcutaneous, the lenticular ones are 
located in the derm and conglomerate. When they are soft¬ 
ening, the skin becomes adherent to what remains hard in the 
button, which is only soft in. the centre; the hair falls off and 
vitality ceasing, the skin mortifies in one piece and the wound 
produced is an ulcer. 
The cords are long, flexuous swellings, located in the sub¬ 
cutaneous tissue or in lymphatic vessels, coming especially 
where large veins run close to the skin, and concentrating 
generally towards the ganglions. They always start from an 
ulcer or accidental wound. 
The tumors are similar to the cords, only of larger dimen¬ 
sions, are found especially on costal and cervical regions. 
They seldom open and exceptionally form ulcers, but remain 
soft cavities. 
The ganglions—tumors or glands —are round, hard, of irreg- 
