378 THE MODERN* HORSE DOCTOR. 



GLANDERS AND FARCY. 

 Glanders. 



It is a notorious fact, that many valuable horses, in this coun- 

 try, are yearly sacrificed at the shrine of ignorance ; having 

 been pronounced by their owners as glandered, simply because 

 they have a discharge from the nostrils, accompanied by enlarged 

 maxillary glands.* And we do not hesitate to say that many 

 such horses might, by proper medical treatment, be restored to 

 health. 



Mr. R. Vines, V. S., says, "All the symptoms of disease 

 which constitute glanders and farcy invariably depend on the 

 unhealthy state of the system into which it is reduced or brought, 

 and not, as is supposed, from a specific poison contained in the 

 blood ; and these symptoms of disease are found to depend on, 

 and arise from, a variety of causes ; whether they occur at the 

 latter states or stages of common inflammatory diseases, such as 

 strangles, common cold, distemper, disease of the lungs, dropsy, 

 &c, or whether they arise independently of such causes ; for 

 when the system is brought into an unhealthy state, and is more 

 or less debilitated from neglect, or by the improper treatment 

 of any of these diseases, farcy or glanders is the result. The 

 diseases of every animal will, therefore, assume a character ac- 

 cording to the state of the system." 



Mr. Percivall, V. S., says, " The state of the body, or consti- 

 tution, will always have considerable influence on the character 

 and tendency of disease. In horses w r hose bodies are and have 

 long been in an unthriving and unhealthy condition, a common 

 swollen leg will occasionally run into farcy, and a common cold 

 or strangles, or an attack of influenza, be followed by glanders. 

 In other cases, such unfortunate sequels will supervene without 

 any ostensible or discoverable cause." 



We have no doubt that a case of glanders may be induced 

 under the following circumstances: Suppose we select a horse — 

 and many such may be found in this city — whose general health 

 shall be impaired ; let such animal be exposed to the merciless 



* In glanders, it is the lymphatic, submaxillary glands that are affected. 



