202 THE DISEASES OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



Prognosis. 

 Always unfavorable ; treatment is never justifiable, on account 

 of the danger of the extension of the disease to man and other ani- 

 mals. 



Prevention. 



No one but accredited veterinarians should ever be permitted to 

 examine either glandered or suspected horses by the civil authori- 

 ties. If the disease is confirmed, or if there is a justified suspicion 

 of its existence, the veterinarian should at once inaugurate careful 

 inquiries as to the period during which the suspicious symptoms 

 have been present; the number of horses stabled with such dis- 

 eased or suspected ones ; whether they have worked with them ; 

 which have stood beside them, and for how long ; have any been 

 sold, or otherwise removed from the stable, and carefully examine 

 each horse in detail. The results of such an examination should be 

 reported in due form to the civil authorities. The examining vet- 

 erinarian should at once isolate the diseased or suspected horses in 

 a place distant from the healthy ones, or better, the healthy ones 

 should, if possible, be removed from the infected stable. The owner 

 and attendants must be notified of their duties in this regard, and of 

 the danger to themselves from carelessness. 



Special persons should be detailed to take care of the suspected 

 animals. 



The veterinarian should make an accurate and detailed descrip- 

 tion of each horse upon the place, or in the stable, a copy of which, 

 with owner's name, should be given to the civil authorities. 



If glanders be diagnosed in a horse, it should be at once killed, 

 and in a way to guarantee, as far as possible, no further extension of 

 the disease. 



When the suspicion of glanders exists, the animals should be 

 killed— 



1. When it can be proved that the suspected animal has been in 

 intimate relations with one known to have had the disease. 



2. When there exists a suspicious nasal discharge ; tumefaction 

 and nodulated conditions of the intermaxillary and other accessible 

 lymph-glands ; when suspicious cutaneous conditions are present, 

 especially when in unison with these conditions we have more or less 

 marked difficulty in respiration, and want of condition in the animal. 



3. When, after the lapse of three months, a suspected horse 

 can not be declared free from suspicion by a majority of three quali- 

 fied veterinarians. 



