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width, hence can be seen only with the highest powered microscope. The 

 hands should be protected with rubber gloves and the mask and gloves 

 burned after examination. 



Malet found by his experiments that the disease could not live out- 

 side the horses body longer than 4 months. Hence a stable may be dis- 

 infected with a 5 per cent or stronger solution of carbolic acid (1 pint 

 to 1 gallon of water) after thoroughly cleaned by masked men and should 

 ba safe to reoccupy in 4 months. Sunlight aids in destroying the germs. 

 A barn should be shut up tight and the following used in fumigation, 

 after all stock are out of the building. Place 14 pint of Potassium Permag- 

 anate in several earthen jars, place in all sections of the barn and pour 

 in the one fartherest from the door about I/2 pi"t of Formaldehyde as 

 you approach the door pour V2 pi"t in the other jars. Leave the barn 

 closed for 6 or 7 hours. If 2 rows of crocks are used, let 2 do the pour- 

 ing. This should be done before attempting to clean the barn after it 

 is established; the horses have glanders and should be done again 

 before the horses are stabled in such a barn. The germ of glanders and 

 farcy are the same. Formerly they were considered two separate diseases, 

 but it has been definitely establishd that farcy and glanders are the same 

 disease. Glanders effecting the organs of respiration, glands of the 

 head and lungs are of more frequent occurance than the form effect- 

 ing the skin which is called farcy. However the two forms are often 

 iound in the same horse. 



Glanders of the nostrils is characterized by lard colored nodules in 

 the nostrils. At the beginning these nodules do not exceed the size of a 

 small pea. These nodules are varying in form from round to oblong 

 and are usually irregular in outline and surrounded by a red ring. As 

 the case advances these ulcers go deeper become larger and very irregular 

 in shape like ice flowers or snow flakes with a peculiar sticky discharge. 

 In addition the glands of the head throw off a discharge, not unlike the 

 discharge of distemper. The horse coughs and a bloody discharge comes 

 from the nostrils. In chronic cases the horse swells on the legs along the 

 neck and shoulders and abdomen. These swellings vary in size from a 

 pin head to the size of a walnut, or these swellings may be isolated or 

 in continuous patches over portions of the entire body. In the acute 

 form the horse may live only a few days but in the chronic form the 

 horse may recover from the swellings and be capable of spreading the 

 disease by unnoticed ulcers in the nose cavity after he is apparently well. 



