General Management in Disease 



dipped in a liniment (composed of I part of 

 Terebene to 40 parts of Oil) should be passed down 

 the throat, and then withdrawn. 



Chicken Gapes 



Glanders 



This is a specific disease, solely caused by 

 minute germs known as the bacilli mallei. It 

 may assume an acute or chronic form, usually the 

 latter, and is essentially an equine disease, but 

 communicable to man, therefore extreme pre- 

 cautions must be used to prevent infection, being 

 a remarkably fatal disease. 



The old term "farcy" is not employed now, 

 merely being glanders in which the absorbent 

 vessels, and skin are specially implicated. 



Being a notifiable malady, anyone suspecting the 



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