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hence the name, pink eye ; the legs sometimes swell, and 

 pit on pressure ; and the temperature rises to 103 to 105, 

 rarely higher. In complicated cases, the liver and chest 

 may be involved. Treatment. This ailment is one that 

 has to run its course, and careful nursing and good hygienic 

 surroundings are the main factors that bring about a 

 successful termination. Place the patient in a light, airy 

 loose-box, clothe and bandage ; frequently remove the 

 bandages, and hand-rub the legs to improve the circulation. 

 Encourage the animal to drink, and in the drinking water 

 give 2 teaspoonfuls of potassium chlorate twice daily, also 

 2 oz. of epsom salts twice daily, in the water, to keep the 

 bowels in proper order; a purgative must on no account 

 be used. As a febrifuge, acetate of ammonia and sweet 

 nitre, 2 oz. of each, in water, may be given three or four 

 times in twenty-four hours. If the appetite be lost for some 

 time, milk mixed with an equal volume of water will keep 

 the strength up. During convalescence give tonics, sulphate 

 of iron, and powdered gentian a teaspoonful of each in 

 manger food." 



Glanders is an incurable disease of the horse due to the 

 Bacillus mallei. There are two forms acute and chronic 

 the latter being the one usually seen. 



Symptoms. " In the early stages of chronic glanders there 

 may be only an unthrifty appearance, which is followed by 

 poor and emaciated condition, and a scanty nasal discharge, 

 usually unilateral or from one nostril, of a watery fluid which 

 afterwards becomes like the white of an egg, viscid and sticky. 

 On the mucous membrane of the nostrils typical ulcers form, 

 with hollow centre and raised edges, and the submaxillary 

 glands swell, adhere to the inside of the jaw on the affected 

 side, and become hard as the disease advances. The varying 

 temperature is slightly above normal, which is 100.5 F. 

 The disease can be transmitted to mice and rats by inocula- 

 tion, and to feline animals, as lions and tigers, by feeding 

 them on the flesh of glandered horses. It is fatal to man. 

 Grooms who sleep in stable lofts may contract it by infection ; 

 or they may be inoculated by the nasal discharge getting into 

 abrasions of the skin or on to the mucous membrane. An 

 affected horse coughing or sneezing in a man's face is most 

 dangerous. Cattle are immune, and sheep and pigs are 



