94 DISEASES OF THE HORSE. 



incurability and even fatality. Glanders is no more con- 

 tagious than the heavy, stinking discharge from the nose 

 of some horses with catarrh ; as the pus of an abscess on 

 the nose of a horse with a cold, when introduced into the 

 blood of healthy animals will produce a ferment, which 

 explains the reason why horses with a cold terminates in 

 glanders, because of the absorption of the pus. This 

 will be readily understood, when it is said the horse is 

 running or bordering on glanders. Horses affected with 

 chronic glanders will live and work for years, which fact, 

 being w^ell known, has caused dissatisfaction with local 

 laws, prohibiting the use of glandered horses. 



Fresh specimens of sections of the lungs, nose, and 

 other portions taken from a glandered animal, w^ere 

 placed at the disposal of the Lecturer for the purpose of 

 illustrating to the audience, showing the morbid changes 

 effected by the disease. At the close of the lecture, the 

 doctor showed the manner of generating nascent hydro- 

 gen for the purpose of detecting the presence of the al- 

 kaline sulphite in the secretions of horses under its 

 effects for the purpose of the cure of glanders. Before 

 touching upon the plan of treatment, the reader is re- 

 ferred to the article Farcy. 



Treatment. — The proposition of restoration in a dis- 

 ease of this kind, is the destruction of the ferment, the 

 removal of its products or effects, and the improvement 

 of the bad habit of the body by enriching the blood. 



To remove or neutralize the ferment or poison, give 

 one-half to one ounce doses of the sulphite of soda at 

 night, in cut feed for several weeks, and five grains of 

 the powdered Spanish fly along with it, which will act 

 not only as a powerful tonic, but as an agent whereby 

 the product of the disease will be removed from the body 



