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nor was there any contagious virus existing at the home 
places nor in the pasture. What was the real cause of this 
disease here? The animals had pure air, good water, good 
nourishment and no work; and good, clear weather, with¬ 
out frost or rain, existed at the time. 
To prove the change of original lymphangitis into farcy 
and glanders, I will relate the following two cases : 
About four or five years ago a fast roadster, Lightfoot, 
kept in a very good livery stable in Stockton, was found sud¬ 
denly, in the morning, bleeding from the right nostril. The 
right intermaxillary gland was very large and painful, send¬ 
ing a cord toward the right nostril, lip on same side very 
much swollen ; inside of right nostril a sore three inches long 
by half an inch wide. This was a lymphangitis of a benign 
character. In a few weeks the horse was recovered, but sev¬ 
eral months later I condemned him for confirmed chronic 
glanders, having a hard adherent gland, a bad nasal discharge 
and two indurated ulcers, all on the left side, while the prim¬ 
itive lymphangitis was on the right side. 
About June, 1888, I examined at the home of Mr. Hamil¬ 
ton, near Salida, a mare sick for several months. I noticed a 
splendid lustrous coat, the appetite very good, the crural mus¬ 
cles of left hind leg all decayed, same leg swollen below; from 
twenty to twenty-five sorps on the inside surface of the same 
leg ; those opening on the lymphatic vessels discharged a yel¬ 
low fluid half coagulated ; some of them recently opened gave 
exit to healthy, limpid lymph; a few of them evacuating a 
white, cheesy fluid. No swollen glands nor nasal discharge, 
nor farcy lesions at any other place. Diagnosis : lymphangitis 
of the inguinal and crural ganglions, but of mixed character. 
Inside of two weeks the mare showed a great improvement, 
the most of the sores healed, a few new ones appeared on the 
mammary gland, the swelling of the leg went down, mare 
rests better and moves easier. But suddenly a cold north 
wind set in, causing a chill through the whole system, and 
twenty-four hours later the hair was staring, coat dry, adher¬ 
ent, appetite bad, expression dull, animal weaker, the affected 
leg swollen considerably, having the appearance of farcy in- 
