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In several celebrated cases liorses wliicli Lave been affected with 

 glanders have been kuowu to work for years and die from other causes 

 without ever having had the return of symptoms j but, allowing that 

 these cases may occur, they are so few and far between, and the danger 

 of infection of glanders to other horses and to the stable attendants is 

 so great, that no animal which has once been affected with the disease 

 should be allowed to live. 



In all civilized countries, with the exception of some of the States 

 in the United States, the laws are most stiiugent regarding the prompt 

 declaration on the part of the owner and attending veterinarian at the 

 first suspicion of a case of glanders, and they allow a liberal indemnity 

 for the animal. When this is done, in all cases the animal is destroyed 

 and the articles with which it has been in contact are thoroughly dis- 

 infected. When the attendants have attempted to hide the presence 

 of the disease in a community, punishment is meted to the owner, at- 

 tentling veterinarian, or other responsible parties. Several States have 

 passed excellent laws in regard to glanders, but with few exceptions 

 these laws are not carried out with the rigidity with which they sLould 

 be. In other States where an indemnity is allowed on declaration on 

 the partof the owner, the appraisement of the animal is not fairly made. 

 If the owners of infected animals are to be encouraged to declare the 

 presence of the disease in order to protect their neighbors from the dan- 

 ger of contagion they should be paid, not what the animal affected with 

 the disease is considered worth, when it is valueless, but the one-half 

 or two-thirds of what would belts market value without the disease, 

 and the community" should share the loss which the owner should make 

 in order to protect others. 



RABIES IN THE HORSE. 



Synonyms : Ilydropliobia, madness, lyssa, rage, Wiithlcranlcheit. 



Eabies is a contagious disease, which is usually transmitted by abito 

 and by the introduction of a virus contained in the saliva«f an affected 

 animal, but may be transmitted in other ways. It is characterized by 

 symptoms of aberration of the nervous system, and invariably termi- 

 nates fatally. It is a disease essentially of the dog, but is transmitted 

 to the horse, either from dogs or from any other animal affected with it. 



As a disease of the horse it is useless to enter into the etiology far- 

 ther than to assume that in this animal it is invariably the result of the 

 bite of a rabid animal, usually a dog. 



Perhaps no disease in medicine has been the object of more contro- 

 versy than rabies. Certain medical men of prominence have even 

 doubted the existence of the disease. Many medical men have claimed 

 for it a spontaneous origin. The experience, however, of ages has 

 shovrn that contagion can be proved in the great majority of cases, and 

 by analogy with other contagious diseases, we may only believe that 

 the development of one case requires the prsesistence of a previous 



