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and bicarbonate of soda, the nitrate of potash, and very small doses 

 of the iodide of potash, should be employed to regulate the digestive 

 tract, the kidneys, and the other excreting glands, and to stimulate 

 absorption of the waste matter. 



The diet demands the strictest attention from the outset. In 

 many of the fevers the food has to be diminished in quantity and reg- 

 ulated in the quality of its heat-producing components during the 

 acute part of the disease, so as to lessen the material for combustion 

 in the inflamed organs. In edematous pneumonia, on the contrary, 

 all the food that can possibly be digested and assimilated must be 

 given. Choice must be made of the richest material which can be 

 handled by the weakened stomach and intestines without fatiguing 

 them. Good, sound hay should be chopped short and dampened 

 or partly boiled ; in the latter case the hay tea can be reserved to use 

 as a drink. Oats may be preferred dry or in other cases will be taken 

 better scalded ; in most cases, however, it is better to give slops of oat- 

 meal, to which can be added a little bran, barley flour, or boiled milk 

 and wheat flour. Pure cow's milk, not too rich in fatty matter, can 

 be given alone or with beaten eggs; frequently the horse will have 

 to be coaxed with the milk diluted with several parts of water at first, 

 but will soon learn to drink the pure milk. Apples and carrots cut 

 up raw or boiled are useful, and fresh clover in small quantities will 

 frequently stimulate the appetite. In other words, try various foods 

 and combinations and give the horse what he will eat. Throughout 

 the course of the disease and during convalescence the greatest atten- 

 tion must be taken to cleaning the coat thoroughly so as to keep the 

 glands of the skin in working order, and light, warm covering must 

 be used to protect the animal from cold or drafts of air. (Spl. Rpt 

 Horses Dept. Agr. 1911.) 



GLANDERS AND FARCY. 



Let it be understood at the outset that glanders and farcy are one 

 and the same disease, differing only in that the first term is applied 

 to the disease when the local lesions predominate in the internal or- 

 gans, especially in the nostrils, lungs, and air tubes, and that the 

 second term is applied to it when the principal manifestation is an 

 outbreak of the lesions on the exterior or skin of the animal. The 

 term glanders applies to the disease in both forms, while the term 

 farcy is limited to the visible appearance of external trouble only; 

 but in the latter case internal lesions always exist, although they 

 may not be evident. 



Glanders is a contagious constitutional disease of the genus 

 Equus (the horse, ass, and mule), readily communicable to man, the 

 dog, the cat, the rabbit, and the guinea pig. It is transmitted with 

 difficulty to sheep and goats, and cattle seem to be entirely immune. 

 It runs a variable course and usually produces the death of the ani- 

 mal affected with it. It is characterized by the formation of neo- 

 plasms, or nodules, of connective tissue, which degenerate into ulcers, 

 from which exude a peculiar discharge. It is accompanied by a 

 variable amount of fever, according to the rapidity of its course. It 

 is subject to various complications of the lymphatic glands, of the 



