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the nasal cavities, being accompanied with an intense inflamma¬ 
tion of the pituitary membrane, with abundant suppuration at its 
surface and tumefaction of the maxillary ganglions, their presence 
may easily induce an error and the case be mistaken for one of 
acute glanders. 
Upon the skin of the lips and the wings of the nostrils the 
pustules of gounne may also, and easier too, suppurate, be hol¬ 
lowed in the centre, increase in size, become half a centimeter in 
width and in depth, and also for several days resemble exactly 
farcinous ulcers. 
This resemblance is then also increased by the simultaneous 
development of lymphangitis, showing sinuous cords, more or 
less bosselated, between these excavated and suppurating surfaces 
and the surrounding ganglions, which become also the seat of an 
inflammatory swelling more or less painful. 
After a few days the lympangitis suppurates and opens here 
and there upon the most prominent points, so as to resemble a 
series of true chancres. We must acknowledge all this looks much 
like farcy, and can be readily mistaken for the manifestations of 
glanderous diathesis. It is not possible now to doubt that all the 
cases of flying farcy of the face, so readily and easily cured, were 
but examples of mistaken horse-pox. Even to-day similar errors 
may be made, though the attention of practitioners has been called 
to these facts. 
The deception is as great when the eruption, concentrated upon 
one leg, is also accompanied with suppuration of the pustules, 
with lymphangitis and consecutive adenitis. It is true that the 
formation of an abscess in a ganglion, soon following, decides the 
question. Still this is not an absolutely characteristic sign ; for 
it may take place in very exceptional cases of acute glanders, and 
on the other hand, it may be missing in true gourme. The pres¬ 
ence or absence of this abscess does not constitute a positive sign 
in one case or in the other. 
I had occasion to watch, upon a four-year-old, a similar 
fact, which puzzled me much. Following a pustular eruption on 
the left hind leg, this horse had ulcerous sores on the canon and 
an indurated lymphangitis running on the internal face of the leg 
