GLANDBRS OR FARCY. 153 



tissues of a sound one, either on the exterior or when swallowed mixed 

 with food into the digestive tract. 



Glanders is not infectious in the old acceptation of the word. Renault 

 made a large number of experiments, forcing sound horses to breathe the 

 expired air of glandered horses for an hour and a half a day for seven 

 days, by means of a tube of canvass, and was unable to produce the 

 disease in any case. 



The stable attendants serve as one of the most common carriers of the 

 virus. Dried or fresh discharges are collected from the infected animal 

 in cleaning, harnessing, feeding, and by means of the hands, clothing, 

 the teeth of the currycomb, the sponge, the bridle, and halter, are car- 

 ried to other animals. 



An animal affected with chronic glanders in a latent form is moved from 

 one part of the stable to another, or works hitched with one horse and 

 then with another, and may be an active agent in the provocation of 

 disease without the cause being recognized. 



Glanders is found frequently in the most hidden forms, and we recog-" 

 nize that it can exist without being apparent; that is, it may affect a 

 horse for a long period without showing any symptoms that will allow 

 even the most experienced veterinarian to make a diagnosis. An old 

 gray mare belonging to a tavern keeper was reserved for family use 

 with good care and light work for a period of eight years, during which 

 time other horses in the tavern stable were from time to time affected 

 with glanders without an apparent cause. The mare, whose only 

 trouble was an apparent attack of heaves, was sold to a huckster, who 

 placed her at hard work. Want of feed and overwork and exposure 

 rapidly developed a case of acute glanders, from which the animal 

 died. 



In a recent case a coach horse was examined for soundness and passed 

 as sound by a prominent veterinarian, who a few months afterwards 

 treated the horse for a skin eruption from which it recovered. Twelve 

 months afterward it became hidebound, with a slight cough and a slight 

 eruption of the skin, which was attributed to clipping and the rubbing 

 of the harness, but which had nothing suspicious in its character. The 

 horse was placed on tonics and put to regular light driving. In six 

 weeks it developed a bronchitis without having been specially exposed, 

 and in two days this trouble was followed by a lobular pneumonia and the 

 breaking of an abscess in the right lung. Farcy buds developed on the 

 surface of the body and the animal died. 



