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cases, due to the lung complication mentioned above, and 

 the head may become slightly swollen. There is a nasal dis- 

 charge, which is usually more abundant than the discharge 

 of chronic glanders, and is horribly fetifl in most cases, as 

 is the breath of the animal. The discharge may also be 

 frequently tinged with blood, in consequence of the opening 

 of a small blood-vessel by ulceration. Ulcers may be seen 

 on the pituitary membrane. These ulcers quickly become 

 confluent, and the membrane a mass of ulceration. The 

 superficial lymphatics of the body and limbs may swell and 

 burst. The animal now presents a most loathsome ap- 

 pearance and soon dies. In such cases the virus is very 

 potent indeed. There is no great danger in being about 

 glandered horses, unless the person so doing has sores or 

 open wounds on his hands into which the virus may obtain 

 entrance ; or it may get into the nose, in which case it is 

 likelier to produce the disease than if entrance into the 

 system was effected in some other way. If it gets into the 

 eye it may cause a little trouble, but even then it is not at 

 all likely to cause glanders. 



Treatment. — Glanders, so far as is known to the pro- 

 fession, is incurable, whether occurring in the chronic or 

 acute form, and the animal should be killed. It is claimed 

 by some that it is due to the presence of a minute or- 

 ganism, which has been lately discovered, and it is thought 

 that by a species of vaccination it may be possible to arrest 

 the spread of this terrible disease, and control it to a 

 greater or less extent ; but the only proper way to do so is 

 to stamp the disease out, which could be done by proj)er 

 laws rigidly enforced. An animal, on being ascertained to 

 have glanders, should be at once killed, and the body 

 buried deeply in the ground, to prevent its being dug up 

 or fed upon by dogs or other carnivorous animals. In 

 place of burying the body it may be destroyed by fire, 



