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(01 d syphilis) in a mild form, which in time comes to assume its 
old proportions, as will be seen further on. 
c In I ranee, the symptoms of the disease in the stallion do 
not appear to be so marked as in the mare, and not unfrequently 
several weeks pass away without any indication of its existence 
being manifested.” 
Besides the u indurated sores of the genital organs, swellings 
of submaxillary, axillary and inguinal lymphatic glands, the con¬ 
stitutional manifestations are very remarkable. 
The general symptoms appear in the following sequence 
Emaciation, lameness, nervous derangement, paralysis, marasmus, 
glandeis and farcy, and death. The debility is so extreme that 
the \ictims can no longer stand, and their hinder legs dropping 
undei them, leaves them sitting like a dog, vainly endeavoring to 
maintain their equilibrium ; the face haggard and the countenance 
pinched ; the sunken eyes, expressive of terrible agony, which is 
made all the more sad by the futile attempts to rise—we have a 
startling picture of the effects of an equine venereal disease.” 
And } et we are told that u syphilis, as such, is never known 
to occur in domestic animals.” Call this malady by what name 
)<ju will, it certainly is a constitutional disease of a venereal ori¬ 
gin, which, had we space to quote from its numerous symptoms 
and pathological anatomy, would be seen to invade almost 
every tissue and organ of the body. 
Its identity with syphilis is complete in every particular, so 
far as the constitutional difference of the horse will permit, and 
any one who studies the two diseases carefuily must come to the 
same pathological conclusion. The reader will please to bear in 
mind that “ glanders and farcy not unfrequently accelerate the 
linal catastrophe.” Do any symptoms of this disease resemble 
glanders \ Nearly all of them do, except the nervous phenomena, 
which are most like those of syphilis, due, we suspect, to a more 
rarification or potentization—if we may so call it—of the poison. 
These latter symptoms, in the human subject, did not manifest 
themselves until of late years, owing to the disease becoming 
milder. 
As glanders in the horse generally gains entrance to the 3 vs- 
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