Contagious Cellulitis. Epizootic Cellulitis 773 



When the disease appears in a breeding area it should be 

 handled with the greatest rigor as to quarantine, and the 

 breeding quarters should receive special consideration. Dis- 

 eased mares or mares coming from infected premises should 

 on no account be admitted to the breeding place. Should 

 the malady become general in a neighborhood, as it usually 

 does when an outbreak occurs, breeding should be suspended 

 until the disease disappears. 



When a breeding stallion has become infected, aside from 

 the general handling of the malady, special attention should 

 be given to reducing to a minimum the dangers from orchitis 

 and later, after the acute symptoms have passed, to over- 

 coming the lingering chronic infection, through which he 

 may continue to spread the disease to mares. 



When it is known that a non-immune breeding stallion has 

 been exposed to this disease, immediate precautions should 

 be taken to guard the animal against a severe attack. He 

 should be placed at rest, physically and sexually. The usual 

 high feeding of breeding stallions should at once be dis- 

 placed by a very light laxative diet, such as grass, roots and 

 bran, with an abundance of salt. If these measures do not 

 induce a prompt unloading of the alimentary tract, the bow- 

 els should be evacuated by means of small doses of eserine 

 or arecoline and the system placed in first-class condition to 

 withstand the onset of the disease. Pending the advent of 

 the disease, the animal should have regular daily exercise, 

 though great care should be taken not to continue it after 

 the appearance of the first symptom of the malady, fever, 

 has become established, as indicated by thermometry. If 

 the stallion is attacked without these precautions having 

 been taken, similar measures should still be adopted. The 

 ration should be reduced and confined to laxative foods, and 

 the bowels should be promptly and cautiously evacuated. 



The stallion is to be guarded against physical or sexual 

 excitement. Strange mares should not be allowed in sight 

 or hearing, and every precaution should be taken against 

 arousing sexual desire. In most stallions the application of 

 the stud bridle occasions excitement, which, at such times, 

 should be avoided. 



