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found among team horses and especially among the horses in 

 lumber camps, from which it is spread by the annual spring sale 

 of such animals after the lumber season closes. Glanders and 

 Farcy are one and the same disease only manifested in a differ- 

 ent manner. When the specific poison enters the system, it 

 may show itself first by attacking the lymphatics of the legs 

 especially of the hind legs, and is then spoken of as farcy. If 

 it attacks the mucous membrane of the head first, it is spoken 

 of as glanders ; but in either case it extends and runs from one 

 into the other in time. It is liable to be confounded with 

 chronic catarrh of the nasal passages, which it simulates; 

 Owners of horses should be on the watch for this trouble as 

 it is highly contagious both to horse and man. Veterinarians 

 should promptly report suspicious cases, that they may be dealt 

 with at an early stage. 



FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. 



This disease is also known as epizootic aptha, aphthous 

 fever, infectious aptha, etc., and may be defined as an acute, 

 highly contagious fever of a specific nature, characterized by the 

 eruj^tion of vesicles, or blisters, in the mouth, around the coro- 

 nets of the feet, and between the toes. 



Symptoms: — In from three to six days after the exposure of 

 the animal to the infection, the disease makes its appearance. 

 It is first indicated by the animal suffering from a chill, quickly 

 followed by an invasion of fever, which may cause the tem- 

 perature to rise as high as io6 F. Following this in one or two 

 days it will be noticed that small vesicles about the size of hemp 

 seeds or a pea, are making their appearance upon the mucous 

 membrane of the mouth at the border and upper surface of 

 the tongue near the tip, the insides of the cheeks, on the gums 

 and the inner surface of the lips, or on the margin of the dental 

 pad. These little blebs contain a yellowish watery fluid and 

 gradually become more extensive as the disease advances. Soon 

 after the eruptions have appeared in the mouth of the animal 

 it will be noticed that there is considerable swelling, redness 

 and tenderness manifest about the feet, at the coronet, and 

 between the digits of each foot. Eruptions similar to those 

 within the mouth make their appearance upon these swollen 

 regions of the foot a day or two later and at this stage it is 



