850 DISEASES AND THEIE TBEATMENT. 



emaciated ; the ulceration attacks the nostrils, and glanders and 

 farcy are combined, and death relieves him at last.* A disease 

 called watery farcy must not be mistaken for genuine farcy." 



As there is liable to be considerable difficulty experienced in 

 diagnosing glanders from common running of the nose from cold, 

 strangles, or nasal gleet, I include the best description I can find 

 of the symptoms as they progress. 



" The earliest symptom is an increased discharge from the nos- 

 tril, small in quantity, constantly flowing, of a watery character 

 and a little mucus mingling with it. Connected with this is an 

 error too general, and highly mischievous with regard to the char- 

 acter of this discharge in its earliest stage of this disease, when the 

 mischief from contagion is most frequently produced. The discharge 

 of glanders is not sticky when it may be first recognized. It is an 

 aqueous or mucous, but small and constant, discharge, and is thus 

 distinguished from catarrh, or nasal gleet, or any other defluxion 

 from the nostril. It should be impressed on the mind of every 

 horseman that this small and constant defluxion, overlooked by the 

 groom and by the owner, and too often by the veterinary surgeon, 

 is a most suspicious circumstance. 



"Mr. James Turner deserves much credit for having first or 

 chiefly directed the attention of horsemen to this important but 

 disregarded symptom. If a horse is in the highest condition, yet 

 has this small aqueous constant discharge, and especially from one 

 nostril, no time should be lost in separating him from his com- 

 panions.! 



" This discharge, in cases of infection, may continue, and in so 

 slight a degree as to be scarcely perceptible, for many months, or 

 even two or three years, unattended by any other disease, even ul- 

 ceration of the nostril, and yet the horse being decidedly glandered 

 from the beginning, and capable of propagating the malady. In 

 process of time, however, pus mingles with the discharge, and then 

 another and a characteristic symptom appears. Some of this is 

 absorbed, and the neighboring glands become affected. If there is 



* Fig. 762 is a very good illustration of a bad case of farcy photographed from 

 life. 



t Mr. Turner, during his experiments, refers to a flue mare that had simply a 

 slight running of mucus from one of the nostrils which he pronounced glanders, 

 and highly contagious. Regardless of his advice, the mare was sold. Months 

 afterward he found a number of horses in a stable suffering from glanders, all hav- 

 ing undoubtedly taken the disease from this mare, she having been worked and 

 stabled with them. A large number of cases are referred to by others, caused by 

 being put into the stalls that had been occupied by horses showing the above symp- 

 toms; in one case one horse was the means of inoculating a whole troop of army 

 horses, making it necessary to destroy them all. So it is best to be on the safe 

 side by taking the greatest possible precaution when a case is suspected. 



