180 DISEASES OF HORSES AND CATTLE. 



tion as to leave little doubt that glanders did not 

 exist, yet it was not long before glanders made its 

 appearance. I believe that a disease which is pe- 

 culiar to any class of animals can be produced 

 spontaneously if surrounding circumstances are 

 favorable for its development. The conditions 

 which would likely be most favorable to cause 

 glanders are badly ventilated stables, such as are 

 common in large cities, hard work and poor food. 

 It is stated that it has broken out in stables which 

 have been newly built and plastered and the horse 

 put in before the place was perfectly dried. Dis- 

 eases wmich exhaust and depress the system and 

 deprive the blood of its proper nutrition, chronic 

 nasal gleet, which runs down the system of the 

 horse, may cause it. Farcy is the same disease as 

 glanders, only in a milder form, and usually affects 

 the lymphatic glands on the inside of the legs, 

 which swell and burst and discharge a matter. A 

 horse affected with farcy may give another gland- 

 ers. 



Symptoms: The chronic form of glanders is 

 that usually seen in this country. There is a dis- 

 charge from the nose of a bluish, watery, sticky 

 matter, usually from one nostril. In looking at 

 the membrane of the nose, sores will be seen from 

 the size of a pinhead to that of a dime; these sores 

 or ulcers are gray in the center and purple at the 

 edges. In the early stages of this disease there 

 may be no ulcers in view. It will be necessary to 

 hold up the horse's head and have the clear light 

 shown as far up the nostril as possible, or a re- 



