244 THE HORSE 



An indication of Interior glanders is a sudden falling 

 off in condition. If a horse shrinks up suddenly, with- 

 out any apparent cause, looking as if he had been 

 deprived of hay or water, glanders may be suspected. 

 This is apt to occur when the horse first contracts 

 glanders. He may fill out again later, but, later still, 

 though possibly months or years later, he will fall 

 away again, and show other external signs of the 

 disease. It seldom, perhaps never, happens that a 

 horse dies of glanders without showing some external 

 symptoms. The disease will appear at the surface 

 v/hen his constitution begins to succumb to it. If a 

 horse with latent glanders contracts any other disease, 

 especially a disease accompanied by fever, the glanders 

 in his system will almost certainly appear in the form 

 of "farcy buds" or otherwise. 



It used to be thought that glanders was a spon- 

 taneous disease, and that a bad or neglected case of 

 catarrh might develop into glanders. But this is im- 

 possible. The disease is a germ disease and can result 

 only from infection of one animal by another. 



Great pains should be taken. It need not be said, to 

 disinfect everything that has come in contact with a 

 glandered horse, or upon which he has breathed. 

 Means of doing this are suggested on page 241. 



