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DISEASES AND THEIE TREATMENT. 



GLANDERS AND FARCY. 



I consider these difficulties mainly to enable the detection of 

 them to prevent their spreading, as they are extremely contagions 

 to both men and horses. They are in- 

 curable, and to guard against the possibility 

 of danger when a case is suspected, the only 

 safe way is to at once either isolate or de- 

 stroy the animal. 



I depend mainly for my explanation of 

 these diseases upon several old authors.* 

 They fully agree with the statements of 

 modern authors that it is practically useless 

 to tamper with glanders. Farcy in its early 

 stage can be controlled without difficulty, 

 but the medicine injures the constitution seri- 

 FIG. 761. An ordinary ously, and in addition, it is rarely that the 

 case of farcy. disease will not soon break out again or 



develop glanders. 



" Symptoms. The distinctive appearances which glanders pre- 

 sent may be slow in their development, and may continue for years, 

 during which he may feed and work 

 well, constituting chronic glanders ; or 

 they may run on rapidly, and in two or 

 three weeks are well marked and soon 

 come to a fatal termination, when it is 

 called acute glanders. 



" The coat is rough and staring ; he 

 is usually hide-bound ; the belly drawn 

 up, and constitutional disturbance exists, 

 the pulse being easily excited ; the mem- 

 brane lining tho nostrils is of a leaden 

 hue ; the glands inside the lower jaw 

 where the pulse is felt become enlarged, 

 hard and nodular like a mass of peas or 

 beans, especially on tho side from which the discharge takes place 

 usually the left, sometimes tho right, or even from both ; the 

 discharge is clear and watery at first, becoming thicker and sticky, 

 accumulating around the nostril ; cough may bo present, but it is not 

 an invariable symptom. As it advances, the discharge increases, be- 

 comes purulent, of a greenish color, sometimes mixed with streaks 

 of blood ; it is of a heavy specific gravity, and if dropped into 

 water sinks to the bottom ; it has u very offensive Rmell ; the 



FIG. 762. A piece of farcied 

 skin From Mayhew. 



* Turner, Youatt, M. Volpi, White, and other?. 



