198 LIGHT HORSES '. BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



The chronic form only differs from the acute by the 

 severity of the symptoms. A horse may live for a consider- 

 able time when affected with chronic glanders, and even 

 perform hard work, as the constitutional symptoms are com- 

 paratively slight. But this form always terminates in acute 

 glanders if the horse is not destroyed. 



Farcy is merely superficial or skin glanders, and it also 

 may be acute or chronic. There are ulcers on various parts 

 of the body, and these generally discharge; they are connected 

 by a prominent line or cord. The legs are most frequency 

 involved, and then they are generally swollen and painful, an 

 the horse moves with difficulty. Farcy generally terminates 

 in glanders. 



Treatment. Glanders is practically incurable, and owing 

 to its dangerous character its cure should not be attempted. 

 Diseased horses should be at once destroyed, and those with 

 which they have been in contact, or which have stood in the 

 same stable with them, ought to be considered suspected and 

 consequently kept apart from the others. Stalls and places 

 which have been occupied by diseased and suspected horses, 

 should be thoroughly cleansed and disinfected. 



Bronchitis. 



Bronchitis is inflammation lining the windpipe and its 

 branches in the lungs, and is usually due to colds, though 

 it is sometimes a complication of other diseases, and it may 

 even be produced by the entrance into the air-passages of 

 irritant fluids or gases. 



Symptoms. Bronchitis may be acute or chronic, but in 

 young horses it is most frequently the former. This gener- 

 ally begins with shivering and dulness ; then fever sets in, 

 and the breathing is quickened, while there is a hard loud 

 cough. There may or may not be a discharge from the 

 nostrils at first, but there is generally after a day or two, and 

 in a few days it may be quite copious. The cough increases 



