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moderate pressure upon the bladder or by the introduction of the 

 catheter. 



Preventive treatment. — Wlien the horse is left resting for 

 twenty-four or forty-eight hours or longer, the food ration has to 

 be diminished and the animal must be given a little exercise 

 in the open air every day, thus keeping the animal accustomed 

 to the outside temperature. The ventilation of the stable should 

 be arranged in such a way as to avoid drafts, and it must be seen 

 to that the temperature remains moderate. 



GLANDERS AND FARCY. 



Glanders is one of the equine diseases which has been longest 

 known. 



Glanders and farcy are one and the same disease. 



Glanders is the name given to this disease when it affects the 

 Schneiderian membrane and internal organs. 



Farcy, so called, is when the disease is located in the lymphatic 

 glands situated on the external parts of the body. 



Glanders is a contagious constitutional disease of the horse, 

 ass, and mule, rarely communicated to other animals. This 

 disease is due to the " bacillus mallei." 



It is di-v-ided into acute and chronic glanders. In acute glanders 

 the bacilli enter the blood and the disease always becomes gen- 

 eralized. 



Chronic glanders. 



The beginning of chronic glanders is often hidden from view 

 and passes unobserved. 



The first symptom is generally a discharge from one or both 

 nostrils of a yellowish green matter of bad aspect; quite fre- 

 quently it is tinged with blood. 



Upon the Schneiderian membrane we generally observe pimples 

 and ulcers. The lesions, however, may appear a long time after 

 the beginning of the disease. The pimples are of short duration: 

 they are soon transfonned into ulcers more or less deep, with 

 sawtooth-shaped, thickened edges; these may heal, but will 

 always leave a scar. 



The enlargement of the lympathic glands situated in the space 

 between the lower jaw is another important symptom. In the 

 beginning the gland is a little sensitive, slightly doughy, and 

 adherent to the base of the tongue or to the lower maxillae; in 



