384 FAECY AND GLANDEKS. 



lung tissue, and often associated with some amount of pneu- 

 monia. Too little attention has been paid to the auscultatory 

 phenomena of cases of glanders, whether acute or chronic. 

 When the lungs become much affected, the animal's appetite 

 is disturbed, there is considerable weakness, anaemia, and 

 tendency to wasting. 



Death from glanders is due, in many instances, to the 

 direct effects of blood-poisoning, characterized by stupor, 

 fetid secretions, and impeded circulation. In other cases the 

 animals sink in a state of hectic. 



Farcy may be successfully treated by applying blisters 

 round the buds, and caustics to the ulcers, whilst the system 

 is supported by tonics. The remedies employed with greatest 

 success internally have been arsenic, cantharides, sulphate of 

 copper, sulphate of iron, quinine, and other vegetable and 

 mineral tonics. Locally, the free use of antiseptics, such as 

 chlorine water, carbolic acid, Condy's permanganates, &c., is 

 to be recommended. Where an eruption of farcy buds 

 occurs around a fetlock joint, and in the vicinity of a wound 

 which is much inflamed, a poultice may be applied composed 

 of linseed meal. When the warm poultice is made, a few 

 ounces of liquor plumbi diacetatis can be mixed with it with 

 advantage, and caustics afterwards applied. Attention must 

 be paid to the organs of secretion, and laxatives or diuretics 

 are required at intervals. 



Glanders is an incurable affection, and any animal suffer- 

 ing from it should be instantly destroyed. We cannot too 

 strongly condemn the practice of experimenting with glan- 

 dered horses, as the danger of infecting men and animals is 

 too great to be trifled with, and prevention is decidedly better 

 than cure under such circumstances. 



