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l\rODETlN VETEKTXArvY PRACTICE. 



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in the lint, nnd let it remnin for a few days, 

 and patit'iitly wait tlio result. 



If tlio mattor is glaiuliM-ous, tlio part will 

 become e.Xfessivcly sore in about two days, and 

 a scab will form on it. Tliia, in a short time, 

 will be thrown oft', leaving a peculiar kind of 

 ulcer, which will often spread rapidly, causing 

 a painful swelling of the adjacent part, with 

 corded veins, or farcy-buds. After this, glan- 

 ders will soon appear. No other matter will 

 produce such au ellect; showing at onco tl"<) 

 nature of the disease. 



When colts are kept at grass, as they gene- 

 rally are, until three or four years old, they 

 will have passed tlirough a disease by which 

 the whole constitution appears to be depurated, 

 and consequently becomes invigorated. This 

 is called strangles, which most frequently occurs 

 when colts are kept on poor pasture, and which 

 debilitates the animal to such au extent, that 

 it often degenerates into glanders. AVhile the 

 colt is at grass, and kept well, the disease gene- 

 rally runs its course without much inconve- 

 nience to the animal, and without requiring the 

 uiterference of art ; but when he is takeu up, 

 broken-iu, put to work, and kept in hot sta- 

 bles, and incautiously fed upon hard and 

 stimulating food, before strangles has taken 

 place, a horse has often this disease with great 

 severity. 



Sometimes strangles comes on, and does not 

 pass through its course in the natural way ; the 

 swelling under the jaws does not suppurate, or 

 become an abscess, but remains hard ; or a 

 superficial opening takes place, from which 

 a small quantity of matter is discharged, and 

 this is sometimes supposed to degenerate into 

 glanders. 



This kind of glanders often terminates in 

 consumption. It is accompanied with cough, 

 and tlie discharge is generally from both nos- 

 trils, and more like pus than the matter wliich 

 comes from the real glanders arising from 

 contagion. From its not being contagious, 

 however, it should be distinguished by another 

 name. "NVe would restrict the term glanders 

 to those discharges from the nose which are 

 capable of communicating the disease to other 

 horses. This would be found highly useful in 

 practice. 



We now come to the consideration of the most 

 difficult part of this subject, namely, the cure 



of glanders; and it is needless to say anything 

 of tho niodo of prevention beyond obKerving, 

 that this can only bo accomplished bv taking 

 caro that no glanderous matter cornea in 

 contact with tho horse, or mixes with his food 

 or water; and tliat the only method of purify- 

 ing an infected stable is, to remove everything 

 on which glanderous matter may have fulk-n, 

 and to thoroughly wash and scrape tho tixturef<, 

 such as tho rack and manger. The stable 

 should be well whitewasheti, and the stall 

 strewed with a solution of chloride of lime. 



We have observed that glandered horses 

 have, in several instances, been known to get 

 entirely free from the disorder while employed 

 in moderate work, and carefully fed and at- 

 tended to, with little or no medicine. Tho 

 general opinion of both English aed Frencli 

 veterinarians, we believe is, that glanders is 

 incurable, but that farcy is curable. During 

 an extensive experience, we have succeeded in 

 curing many cases of farcy, when it has been 

 a local disorder ; but such cases are generally 

 followed by glanders, although there has been 

 often a considerable interval — from a few 

 weeks to a few months — between the dis- 

 appearance of the one, and the appearance of 

 the other. AVhen glanders and farcy appear 

 at the same time, or when farcy breaks out in a 

 glandered horse, it would depend upon the state 

 of the blood, as to its impregnation with the 

 glanderous poison, whether we should recom- 

 mend him to be immediately destroyed. AV'e 

 would, however, make an exception to this 

 where a glandered horse has inoculated himself. 

 Then the farcy is at first only local ; but as 

 it soon becomes a fresh source of contamina- 

 tion, and, in a short time, increases the dis- 

 order, it always becomes necessary to destroy 

 the animal. The cure of glanders cannot bo 

 accomplished without great care and consider- 

 able expense ; and rarely at all, we believe, 

 except in its first stage, or mild form. 



The expense of the cure does not depend so 

 much on the sort of medicines employed, as the 

 length of time that is necessary to eftect it ; 

 and it also must be recollected, that in saying 

 the disease is curable, it is by no means to be 

 understood that there is a certainty of success 

 in adopting any mode of treatment. There- 

 fore, unless the horse is of considerable value, 

 in good condition, and glandered only in a mild 



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