350 The Management and Diseases of the Dog. 



Mr. Fleming, in his " Veterinary Sanitary Science," on 

 this subject, observes : " The receptivity of the dog is not 

 very great ; indeed, not many years ago, inoculations with 

 glander virus were so unsuccessful in this animal that it was 

 believed it could not be infected. 



"Hertingmadeexperiments forseveral years,but theywere 

 always incomplete in their results. He fed eight dogs for a 

 number of weeks on the raw flesh of glandered horses, but 

 without producing the disease in them. At first, however, 

 they were usually affected with diarrhoea, the faeces being of 

 a dark red colour. Nordstrom produced the malady in two 

 dogs by feeding them with this flesh ; they had a bloody 

 discharge from the nostrils, redness of the eyes, and an 

 cedematous swelling of the head. They died.* 



" Lafosse mentions the case of a dog belonging to Marshal 

 Neil, which contracted the malady through living in the 

 same stable with a diseased horse. Hertwig applied the 

 nasal discharge from glandered horses to the Schneiderian 

 membrane of six dogs, by means of a small brush. In two 

 or three days this membrane became swollen and dark- 

 coloured, and there was a thin glutinous discharge, with 

 moderate tumefaction of the submaxillary lymphatic glands. 

 When the matter was inoculated on the skin of the fore- 

 head (where the animal could not lick the wounds), in two 

 or three days there was swelling of the eyes, redness of the 

 conjunctivae, and tumefaction of the submaxillary glands. 

 The wound inflamed, suppurated for about eight days, and 

 then, a black crust forming over it, it healed in about 

 twenty to twenty-five days. 



" Of six dogs inoculated by Renault, two became affected. 

 One of these perished three-and-a-half months after the 

 local development of the disease, but the other only died 

 in the fifth month. The successful inoculation of two horses 

 with the virus obtained from the ulcers of these dogs left 



* "Tidskriftfor Veterinairer,"etc., Stockholm, 1862. 



