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iron). Use iodine, diuretics, exercise, rubbing, etc., to reduce 

 the swelling, and feed liberally. 



Prevention. — i. Destroy all glandered horses, and all with 

 acute farcy and open sores, and bury deeply. 2. There should 

 be a high penalty attached to the exposing of glandered horses 

 in public places. 3. Suspected animals should be secluded 

 under veterinary supervision until they can be pronounced 

 sound, or destroyed. 4. The stable, manure, litter, harness, 

 clothing, utensils, etc., with which the diseased has come in 

 contact should be thoroughly disinfected. 5. Neither strange 

 animals nor men should be admitted, and attendants should 

 disinfect before leaving. 6. Horses should be protected as far 

 as possible from exhausting work, chronic wearing-out affections, 

 and above all impure and rebreathed air. 



VENEREAL DISEASE OF SOLIPEDS. 



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This is a curious disease ot unknown origin, existing in 

 Arabia, North Africa, and Continental Europe, bearing a strong 

 resemblance in many points to Syphilis, and propagated by 

 copulation. 



Symptojns. — From one to ten days after copulation, or in the 

 Stallion sometimes after some weeks, there is irritation, swelling, 

 and a livid redness of the external organs of generation (in 

 stallions the penis may shrink) followed by unhealthy ulcers 

 which appear in successive crops, often with considerable 

 interval. In mares these are near the clitoris, which is fre- 

 quently erected, with switching and rubbing of the tail; in 

 horses on the penis and sheath. In the milder forms there is 

 little constitutional disturbance and the patients recover in a 

 time varying from a fortnight to two months. In the severe 

 forms the local swelling increases by intermittent steps. The 

 vulva is the seat of a deep violet congestion and extensive 

 ulceration, pustules appear on the perineum, tail, and between 

 the thighs, the lips of the vulva are parl^, exposing the 



