488 THE PRACTICE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE. 



develop, burst, and become confluent. Symptoms of 

 glanders in the ordinary acute form may now appear, and 

 death occurs in from ten to fifteen days. 



Treatment. — As the disease does not admit of cure, treat- 

 ment should not be attempted, but the animal should be 

 destroyed, and the other measures employed in dealing 

 with a case of acute glanders should also be adopted in 

 dealing with farcy occurring in either form. Cures of 

 farcy and glanders are on record, but such records are pro- 

 bably false, the supposed cases of farcy and glanders either 

 being some other disease, or, if genuine, the so-called cures 

 were nothing more than cures in ajDpearance. Chronic farcy 

 will develop into acute farcy or glanders in every instance. 

 Most cases of chronic farcy can be improved by the adminis- 

 tration of tonics, high feeding, touching the ulcers with 

 caustic, etc. But the case can be only temporarily relieved. 

 The animal should be destroyed as soon as the practitioner 

 becomes satisfied that he has a case of farcy or glanders to 

 deal with, as, although the disease may, by a course of 

 medicine, etc., be checked, the virus still remains in the 

 system of the animal, and sooner or later is certain to 

 break out again. Such an animal endangers the lives of 

 other animals as well as the life of his attendant, and for 

 that reason, if for no other, should be destroyed. The 

 practitioner should be very careful in examining affected 

 animals or he may contract the disease. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



Variola. 



VARIOLA EQUINA. 



All the domestic animals appear to be subject to variola, 

 or pox, in some form or other. It is similar to small-j^ox 



