J36 ENLAPGED GLANDS, A CURABLE DISORDER. 



of the first kind is not infectious, except it be complicated with other disorders i 

 but this is seldom the case, though we may daily witness horses thus attack- 

 ed abandoned as incurable, or with little more humanity put to death. On 

 the contrary, glanders of the second species is communicable, because the 

 horse, besides running at the nose, and becoming glanderous, has likewise ul- 

 cers, and these ulcers appear to be the only proximate cause of contagion. 



" The third species of glanders is in like manner contagious, because it not 

 only occasions a running of the nose, but the tumefied glands and the carti- 

 lage of the nose are ulcerated, and likewise certain partsof the body are cover- 

 ed with lumps and ulcers, which latter characterise the farcy glanders, the 

 most dangerous disorder of the three, but not the most common. These two 

 latter species of glanders are infectious, because the disease resides principally 

 in the blood ; but the glanders of the first species, the real glanders, the glan- 

 ders properly so called, is not in anywise contagious, although it most fre- 

 quently occurs. 



*' The second and third species are incurable, but the last only is mortal. 

 But as to glanders of the first sort, it is neither incurable nor mortal. In the 

 first place, we repeat, this disease is not mortal in any case, and a horse at- 

 tacked by it is in the same situation as a man who has lost the sense of smell- 

 ing ; it is the loss of a sense, and the loss of a sense prevents neither the man 

 nor the horse from fulfilling all the animal functions; for, as we daily observe 

 men affected with ulcerated noses preserve an otherwise sound constitution, 

 and even look jolly, so we may observe a glandered horse preserve his strength 

 and health. 



"Secondly; it is incurable only when in veterately confirmed; but when 

 taken in an early stage, its progress may be stopped with very little trouble. 



"Thus we find that glanders of the first species, the real glanders, glanders 

 properly so called, absolutely consists of nothing more than the loss of the sense 

 of smelling. Its cure may be readily effected by frequent bleedings and fumi- 

 gations. Hence may be estimated the little necessity there is for killing 

 horses attacked by this disorder ; and what important services may be render- 

 ed to society or to a regiment, for instance, by an intelligent farrier making a 

 proper distinction between this species of glanders and all other affections and 

 diseases resembling it." 



So far M. La Fosse : his table, prefixed to the translation, " Veterinari- 

 an's Pocket Manual," is sold separately by the booksellers, and may be con- 

 sulted with profit by those who would push further their inquiries respecting 

 "true glanders." 



Cause. — The glanders is a contagious disease only when it has lasted for 

 some time. Original glanders may be acquired by horses being shut up close 

 together, in hot, damp stables, in swampy situations — as in the case of the 

 twenty-two cavalry horses adduced higher up (})age 129), which were con- 

 fined damp, under hatches, but were variously affected, according to the pre- 

 disposing cause in the constitution of each individual. Those animals were 

 improperly condemned, because the disorder had not continued long enough 

 to render it contagious, and they might have recovered if treated as for a 

 simple cold. 



A sudden transition from cold air to a hot stable, as well as from heat to 

 cold, will occasion a running at the nose; or a blow there, as well as a drench 

 rlumsily administered : either of those causes being foreknown, should render 

 Us chary of pronouncing the running contagious, and thus subject the proper- 

 ty to destruction, as proposed. Almost any running, from whatever cause pro- 

 ceeding, or however healthy the previous stiite of the animal's system, causes 

 Ihe glands to enlarge and inflame : after a while, remaining un'ured, they 

 wsufJly adhere to the bone, when alone we should pronounce the glanders cou 



