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filtration ; the aspect of the sores was bad, fluid discharged 
is white, looks like matter. Mare condemned as affected with 
farcy and destroyed. 
From all the above considerations, theoretical and practi¬ 
cal, I am induced to draw the following conclusions: 
ist. That this disease affects the lymphatic system, locally 
or generally. 
2d. That it is non-contagious at the beginning, although 
it might be infectious; and that where several animals on the 
same premises are affected, the disease is caused by similar 
mysterious influences of locality, weather and climate, on all 
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the animals in a like manner, without the existence of a con¬ 
tagious principle. 
3d. That, with the progress of the disease, the animal or¬ 
ganism might undergo such modifications as to transform the 
primitive lymphangitis into a farcinous lymphangitis, and then 
develop glanders and farcy. 
4th. That the disease resists all kinds of treatment and is 
fatal to all mules, while the majority of horses will partially 
recover from its effects. 
5th. That the presence of a horse affected with chronic 
glanders in a band of these diseased animals, cannot lead to 
the conclusion that the disease is of a glandered nature in 
every case, no matter how suspicious the appearances may be. 
Prognostic .—Very serious and fatal. Death occurs almost 
in every case, if the animal is not destroyed by the hands of 
its owner. Those mules which areaffected only on the body 
and legs, can live six months and a year if properly cared for, 
although losing strength on account of the great quantity 
of lymph which is detracted from its natural course and is a 
direct loss to the general nutrition. When the same disease 
breaks out in the nasal cavity and larynx, it causes a great 
difficulty in the act of respiration, and thereby greatly im¬ 
pedes the complete arterization of the blood, besides indirect¬ 
ly impairing the health of the animal, as the inspired air, 
when going over the gangrened sores, absorbs a diseased, de¬ 
composed material, that is introduced through the pulmonary 
