170 Diseases of the Horse, 



CHAPTER yi. 



DISEASES OF THE BLOOD, OR GENERAL DISEASES. 



Glanders. 



Farcy — Bud Farcy — Button Farcy. 



Charbon in the Horse — Purpura Hemorrhagica — Spotted 



Fever. 

 Rheumatism. 



Strangles — Colt Distemper. 

 Erysipelas — St. Anthony^ Fire. 

 Dropsy — Ascites. 



GLANDEHS. 



Definition. — A contagious and fatal disease, due to a poison 

 taken into or generated in the system, which shows its pre- 

 sence by a discharge from the nostrils, and a degeneration 

 more or less rapid of the lymphatic glands and ducts. The 

 poison can be conveyed to man, in whom it T>roduces fatal 

 illness. 



Causes. — The causes of this common and formidable dis- 

 ease, apart from contagion, are usually said to include every- 

 thing that exhausts and reduces the vital powers, such as bad 

 feeding, over- work, neglect, foul air and filthy stables. It is 

 also liable to be generated by putting horses into new stables 

 whose walls are not dry ; and it is a frequent sequel of dia- 

 betes, influenza, the epizootic disease, and other exhausting 

 complaints. 



As caused by contagion, it is very justly the most dreaded 

 of all diseases of horses, as it is easily inoculated into the 

 human species, and is just as incurable as in the horse. In 

 the latter, however, inoculation is not necessary, as the poison 

 is disseminated by more subtle means. Sometimes stables 



