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the tooth removed or the abscess dressed as the case may be 

 Simple nasal gleet is at times successfully treated by puffing iodo 

 form up the nostrils with an insufflator or by injecting 15 grains of 

 chinosol dissolved in 1 pint of tepid water up the nostrils. 



496. Glanders is a highly dangerous, contagious, and inoculable 

 disease, due to the presence of a micro-organism called the Bacillus 

 mallei. It is found in the acute, subacute, and chronic forms. In the 

 old coaching days, when stables were badly constructed, with low 

 ceilings and insufficient ventilation, glanders was very rife, and 

 though it is now seldom seen in the country, it is, I am sorry to say, 

 even more prevalent now in towns than formerly. A horse suffering 

 from chronic glanders may go on working and feeding for months 

 before anything particular is noticed about it, except that its coat 

 looks ragged and unhealthy, and the lining membrane of the nostril 

 may be of a peculiar leaden hue. The animal generally has a slight 

 discharge from one nostril, particularly the left, and a small enlarge- 

 ment under the left jaw firmly attached to the bone. At first the 

 nasal discharge in glanders resembles healthy pus of a yellow colour, 

 and it has a tendency to stick round the nostrils, but there is no 

 foetid smell accompanying it. As the case proceeds, the discharge is 

 occasionally streaked with blood. On examining the nostril, the 

 septum nasi (or division) will be found to be ulcerated, the ulcers 

 having a very peculiar appearance, which needs the eye of the 

 expert practitioner to detect, and as a rule these, when once formed, 

 rarely heal up. The lungs of a glandered horse, on post-mortem, 

 are found to be studded all over (in clusters or separately) with 

 small nodules, or tumours — the miliary tubercle. Glanders should be 

 reported immediately it is suspected, as it is very dangerous to both 

 man and beast, and inoculation, from the chronic, will cause the 

 acute form, and death in a very short time. 



497. Farcy is a disease allied to glanders, and may be considered 

 under the same head. It may be either acute or chronic. In the 

 former, one (or more) of the limbs swells, with a great amount of 

 constitutional disturbance, accompanied by a rise of temperature. 

 The absorbent vessels, or lymphatics, become distended, like cords, 



