Treatment, Prevention. 385 



Dieckerhoff recommends in protracted cases, as well as in phleg- 

 monous inflammations and septic fever, intravenous injections of Argen- 

 tum colloideale or Kollargol (40 cc. of a 1% solution repeated for 

 several days) but Baumgart, Kegel and Werner failed to obtain favor- 

 able results from this treatment. Moretti employs corrosive sublimate 

 (for 5 days 30-60 cc. of a 1:1000 solution intravenously), Franz ad- 

 ministers lodipin (50 g. of a 25% solution subcutaneously), with sup- 

 posedly favorable results. Liudner however found lodipin without effect. 

 Bass recommends Ichthargan (50 cc. of a 1% solution intravenously, 

 or 1.5 to 3 g. in a 5'7o solution intratracheally), Kettner however ob- 

 served in two cases no beneficial results from this treatment. The yeast 

 treatment recommended by Ludwig and Petersen (100 g. of a mixture 

 of brewer-yeast cells and flour of starch, which is marketed as Anti- 

 gourmine and Furouculine, dusted 2 to 3 times daily on the food ; the 

 healthy horses receive as a prophylactic, thin, sour-dough soup), failed 

 to give results according to Hausmann, Zerler, Schultz and Mitrowitsch, 

 also in the Prussian remount depots, Feuerhack (only Diercks and Deich 

 express approval of this treatment). 



In recent times the treatment with antistreptococcus serum has 

 been extensively used, but its value cannot yet be exactly established 

 (see p. 386). 



Prevention. This consists in keeping healthy horses, and 

 especially colts, from affected animals, as well as from stables 

 and stands occupied by the latter. In this way it is frequently 

 possible to protect the animals from infection through their 

 early years and if they should later contract the disease it will 

 run a milder course. The colts born upon certain premises 

 should be kept as much as possible separate from strange colts. 

 If the disease appears in spite of it, it may be checked by trans- 

 porting the healthy animals as early as possible to localities 

 free of the disease; in such instances the animals should be 

 guarded especially against cold, which would reduce their resist- 

 ance. After the extinction of the disease thorough disinfection 

 of the stables and the stable utensils is very desirable, as other- 

 wise it reappears annually in the infected establishments. Re- 

 peated disinfections will prevent the reappearance of the dis- 

 ease still more efficiently. 



Immunization and Serum Treatment. As one attack of the 

 disease as a rule affords an immunity wdiich lasts_ for several 

 years, the possibility of an artificially produced immunity is 

 evident. Even in former times experiments were niade in this 

 direction, ahvays ho^vever for the purpose of artificially pro- 

 ducing a mild affection in the animals, thereby protecting them 

 from the natural, usually more severe form which may occur 

 during an unfavorable time of the year. 



Viborg and Toggia in the beginning of the last century rubbed the nasal dis- 

 charge of affected animals into the noses of healthy horses, while Tatray injected 

 subcutaneously in the neck near the thorax the lymph-like fluid oozing from the 

 broken abscesses. The affection produced in this manner is usually mild, and as 

 the peripharyngeal lymph glands are spared, no dangerous symptoms appear. Jolly 

 & Leclainche injectexl scabs taken from sick animals and emulsified in water sub- 

 cutaneously into healthy horses and thus always produced a mild attack of the 

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