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the eruption is a temporary one; the nodes and pustules are followed by
shallow ulcers and rapid cicatrization unless continued in the vagina or
on the penis by the rubbing of the walls and filth which accumulates;
there are apt to be pustules at other parts of the body. In the venereal
disease the local trouble commences as a papule and breaks into an
ulcer without having formed a pustule. The ulcer has not the convex rosy
appearance of that of the less serious discharge; the symptoms last for
a longer period, by which time others aid in differentiating the two. In
glanders the tubercle is hard and, after breaking into an ulcer, the
indurated bottom remains, grayish or dirty white in color, ragged, and
exuding a viscous, oily discharge. There is no disposition to
suppuration of the neighboring glands. In variola the rosy shallow ulcer
and healthy pus, with the acutely tumefied glands, should not be
mistaken, at least after a day. I have seen in mules acute glanders
which required a day's delay to differentiate from strangles; at that
time the farcy buds appeared.

_Prognosis._--The average case of horsepox runs a course of dejection,
loss of appetite, and more or less fever for about four days, followed
by a rapid convalescence, and leaves the animal as well and as sound as
before. If the eruption has been excessive or confluent, the ulcerations
may act as irritants and render the animal unfit for use for several
weeks. Laryngitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis, and pneumonia in this
disease are not of greater gravity than they are when occurring from
other causes. The spots denuded of pigment left by the pustules on the
lips and genitals may temporarily depreciate the value of the animal to
a slight degree.

_Treatment._--As this is a disease unattended by alterations of the
blood itself, although a specific fever, and is of a sthenic type,
active remedies are admissible and indicated. The horse should be placed
on a low diet (little or no oats)--bran mashes, a moderate quantity of
good, sound hay, a few carrots or apples, which will act as laxatives;
also slop feed. Barley flour is more cooling for mashes than bran or
oatmeal. Water may be given as the animal desires it, but it should not
be cold; if a half bucketful of water is kept in the manger, the horse
will take but a few swallows at a time. One-dram doses of nitrate of
potash or 1-ounce doses of sweet spirits of niter are useful in the
drinking water. If the fe