SECTION VI. 



GLANDERS AND FARCY. 



Glanders — Glanders can be communicated to Man — Contagiousness or 

 Glanders — Suspected Glanders — How came the Disease to be called 

 Glanders? — Diagnostic Symptom of Glanders — Treatment op Glanders- 

 Farcy (Disease of the Absorbents). 



Glanders. 



ONE of the greatest evils which farmers and horse-dealers have 

 been subjected to, during the prevalence of our late national 

 troubles, was the sale of condemned army horses, many of them 

 being afflicted, either insidiously or actually, with that form of 

 equine affection known as glanders; for it is a well-known fact 

 that this terrible malady is, under certain circumstances or con- 

 ditions of the animal economy, both infectious and contagious; 

 hence the great evil. 



For example, should a glandered horse be placed in a stable 

 where the principles of ventilation and of the admission of light 

 are entirely disregarded, the other inmates of the den, by continu- 

 ally breathing, over and over again, the contaminated atmosphere 

 which must necessarily occupy the same, will (provided their sys- 

 tems are susceptible) take the disease by infection ; that is to say, 

 the miasmatic virus finds an introduction into the blood through 

 the lungs and pulmonary circulation. On the other hand, glanders, 

 under almost every circumstance, can be communicated by con- 

 tagion or touch ; that is, bringing the glandered nasal discharge in 

 contact with an abraded surface, including cuts and scratches. 



Glanders can be communicated to Man. 



Within the last quarter of this century, two veterinary sur- 

 geons — one residing in Walworth, and the other in Wolverhamp- 



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