HORSES; THEIR POINTS AND MANAGEMENT 



ulcers in the nasal cavities being the most significant sign oi 

 glanders. 



Being a readily inoculable malady, extreme care must be 

 exercised whilst handling suspected animals. The diagnosis 

 of glanders or farcy is rendered comparatively easy through 

 the " mallein test." Notification of the existence, or supposed 

 existence, of either glanders or farcy to the nearest local 

 authority is demanded, and failure to do so brings the owner 

 liable to a fine or imprisonment. 



Farcy is frequently associated with glanders. For instance, 

 a horse may have the ordinary lesions of pure glanders for some 

 time, when it develops the farcy sores upon the skin ; hence 

 farcv is merely the same disease as glanders, only the germs 

 are expending their energy upon the absorbent vessels as well. 

 Both maladies, so far as we know, are totally incurable, and 

 the recoveries of the past were merely " patched up," spreading 

 the disease wherever they went — living centres of infection. 



Nodules arise along the course of the lymph channels, and 

 then burst, leaving an unhealthy sore, discharging a yellowish 

 blood-tinged matter. In acute farcy, one of the limbs begins 

 to suddenly swell up, and the constitutional disturbance becomes 

 severe. 



Chronic, or the slow form of farcy, is liable to develop into 

 the acute, or initiate the ordinary lesions of glanders. 



ANTHRAX. 



Anthrax is not a common ailment of the horse, though 

 probably more so than is suspected. The ox is frequently 

 affected ; so that in the disposal of the carcases of these 

 animals, the horse may get smitten with the malady. In 



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