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CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK AND COMPLETE STOCK DOCTOK. 



How to know it. — Acute glanders is characterized by languor ; dry, 

 staring coat ; red, weeping eyes ; loss of appetite ; quick pulse ; elevated 

 temperature, the thermometer registering 103 <5 to 106 ® F. ; accelerated 

 breathing ; a grayish purple color of the lining of the nose ; a watery 

 discharge, which soon becomes yellowish and sticky, causing the hair on 

 which the matter accumulates in and around tlie nostrils to stick together. 

 The discharge looks like melted butter, and when dropped into water it 

 eijiks. The glands under the jaw swell and often adhere to the bone, but 

 notalwa3^s. The partition between the nostrils will become ulcerated; 

 small yellow points with purple bases will 

 come up and burst, making the discharge 

 bloody for the time. These ulcers, with ele- 

 vated edges and depressed centers and purple 

 bases, will spread and become confluent, 

 eating away the membrane till little or noth- 

 ing of it is left ; the discharge increases and has 

 a horribly offensive odor; the lungs become 

 affected by ulcers forming in them ; the breath- 

 ing becomes labored, and the animal finally 

 dies, the most emaciated and disgusting ()l)ject imaginable. 



The chronic course is longer continued and runs less rapidly; but all 

 the same symptoms are developed, with the exception that the appetite 



is less impaired till near the last ; 

 the discharge is less copious and 

 offensive, and emaciation does 

 not take place so rapidly. Bnt 

 if the horse is exposed to any de- 

 gree of hardship and cold storms, 

 the chronic form may run into 

 the acute form at any time. The 

 cough is not always noticed, and the ulcers are sometimes so far up in 

 the nose as to be out of sight. It is often necessary to inoculate a worth- 

 less animal in order to determine the disease. If it is glanders, it will 

 probably prove fatal to the one inoculated in two or three weeks, running 

 the acute course. 



Farcy is recognized by swelling of the legs affected, usually one or 



GLANDERS, 



^^Tien the dis- 

 charge has be- 

 comepurulent. 



GLANBERS, 



In the last stage 

 when the pus 

 is mixed with 

 vlood from ex- 

 tensive slough- 

 ing. 



SECTION OF A LUNG 

 Of a glandered horse, showing the existence of tubercles. 



two, though sometimes all four. 



The swellings are along the lines of the 



lymphatic reins on the legs, belly or any part of the body ; small nodular 

 points come up, which break and discharge a glairy unhealthy pus, run a 

 few days, dry up and leave a scar or bare spot that usually lasts to tell 

 the tale as long ae the horse lives ; other nodules follow and spread nearly 

 ^ over the body, head and neck ; the swelling of the iimb? does not 



