almost an indefinite time. The chancres heal and the other local
symptoms disappear, with the exception of the enlargement of the glands,
and we find these so diminished in size that they are scarcely
perceptible on examination. During the subacute attacks, with a minimum
quantity of local troubles, in chronic glanders and in chronic farcy the
animal rarely shows any degree of fever, but does have a generally
depraved appearance; it loses flesh and becomes hidebound; the skin
becomes dry and the hairs stand on end. There is a cachexia, however,
which resembles greatly that of any chronic, organic trouble, but is not
diagnostic, although it has in it certain appearances and conditions
which often render the animal suspicious to the eye of the expert
veterinarian, while, without the presence of local lesions he would be
unable to state on what he has based his opinion.

ACUTE GLANDERS.

_Symptoms._--In the acute form of glanders we find the symptoms which we
have just studied in chronic farcy and in chronic glanders in a more
acute and aggravated form. There is a rapid outbreak of nodules in the
respiratory tract which rapidly degenerate into chancres and pour out a
considerable discharge from the nostrils. There is a cough of more or
less severity according to the amount and site of the local eruption.
Over the surface of the body swellings occur which are rapidly followed
by farcy buttons, which break into ulcers; we find the indurated cords
and enlargement of the lymphatics.

Bleeding from the nose, sudden swelling of one of the hind legs, and the
swelling of the testicles are liable to precede an acute eruption of
glanders. As the symptoms become more marked the animal has difficulty
of respiration, the flanks heave, the respiration becomes rapid, the
pulse becomes quickened, and the temperature becomes elevated to 103 deg.,
104 deg., or 105 deg. F.

With the other symptoms of an acute fever the general appearance and
station of the animal is that of one suffering from an acute pneumonia,
but upon examination, while we may find sibilant and mucous rales over
the side of the chest, and may possibly hear tubular murmurs at the base
of the neck over the trachea, we fail to find the tubular murmur or the
large area of dullness on percussion over the sides of the chest which
belongs to simple pneumonia.

_Diagnosis._--When there is doubt as to the diagnosis, the mallein test,
the inoculation test, or the complemen