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shuts off all contact, directly or indirectly, from other 

 animals. Scalded food, such as oats, bran, and linseed, 

 scalded hay, to which a Httle treacle has been added, 

 carrots and green food are the usual requisites when 

 nursing a sick animal. A free supply of pure water is 

 essential, and to each pailful of this an ounce of Epsom 

 salts and half an ounce of powdered nitre can be added 

 daily. Good nursing is fully half the battle, and the 

 other half comprises pure air, plus the discriminate use 

 of medicinal agents. As weakness is so very marked in 

 this trouble a liberal supply of milk and some stimulant 

 is always beneficial. The disease usually lasts for several 

 weeks, but all will depend upon the nature of the attack. 



Glanders 



This is an extremely serious malady, as it places so 

 much restraint upon all animals in contact with one that 

 is suffering from the disease. It is due to the bacillus 

 malleus, which is an extremely minute organism circulat- 

 ing in the blood and invading the lungs, respiratory tract, 

 and absorbent vessels and glands in which the skin 

 participates. When it attacks the absorbent vessels and 

 skin the malady is known as farcy, or cutaneous glan- 

 ders. The disease is communicable to man and assumes 

 both acute and chronic forms, but it is comimonly observed 

 in its chronic state. Glanders offers a tremendous field 

 for investigation, and it has always been a disease which 

 has received a great deal of attention at the hands of 

 those who are interested in the study of diseases of the 

 horse. Its existence has been known for several centuries, 

 and was studied by some of the oldest observers. It is 

 gradually on the decline ; motor traction and legislation 

 have done a tremendous lot towards stamping out the 

 disease, but so long as the horse exists, so will glanders 

 and its alHed manifestations be in existence. During 

 this last thirty or forty years it has undergone some 



