CHAPTER XI. 



GLANDERS OR FARCY. 



A Contagious Constitutional Disease. 



GLANDERS AND FARCY THE SAME DISEASE, CAN BE COMMUNICATEE 

 TO MAN, CHRONIC FARCY, CHRONIC GLANDERS, ACUTE FARCY 

 GLANDERS. 



' IvANDERS is a contagious constitutional disease of the horse, ass, 

 and mule and is readily communicable to man, sheep, goat, dog, 

 cat, rabbit, and Guinea pig. It runs a variable course until it 

 produces the death of the animal affected with it. It is charac- 

 terized by the formation of neoplasms of connective tissue, or tubercules 

 which degenerate into ulcers from which exudes a peculiar discharge. 

 It is accompanied by a variable amount of fever according to the rapidity 

 of its course. It is subject to various complications of the lymphatic 

 glands, of the lungs, of the testicles, of the internal organs, and of the 

 subcutaneous connective tissues. 



Glanders was imported into America at the close of the last century, 

 and before the end of the first half of the present centurj' had spread to 

 a considerable degree among the horses of the Middle and immediately 

 adjoining Southern States. This disease was unknown in Mexico until 

 carried there during the Mexican war by the badly diseased horses of 

 the United States Army. During the first half of the present century a 

 large school of veterinarians and medical men protested against the con- 

 tagious character of this disease, and prevailed by their opinion to such 

 an extent against the common opinion that several of the governments 



