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acute glanders the inflammation of the nasal cavities frequently spreads 

 into the sinuses or air cells, which are found in the forehead and in front 

 of the eyes on either side of the face, and cause abscesses of these cavi- 

 ties, which may remain as the only visible symptom of the disease. An 

 animal which has recovered from a case of acute glanders, like the an- 

 imals which are aifected by chronic glanders and chronic farcy, are 

 apt to be affected with emphysema of the lungs or the heaves, and 

 to have a chronic cough. In this condition they may continue for a 

 long period, serving as dangerous sources of contagion, the more so 

 because the slight amount of discharge does not serve as a warning 

 to the owner or driver as profuse discharge does in the more acute 

 cases. 



With good care, good food, and good surroundings and little work, 

 an animal affected with glanders may live for months or even years in an 

 apparent state of perfect health, but with the first deprivation of food, 

 with a few days of severe hard work, with exposure to cold or with the 

 attack of a simple fever or inflammatory trouble from other causes, the 

 latent seeds of the disease break out and develop the trouble again in an 

 acute form. 



Treatment. Fully the entire list of drugs in the pharmacopoeia 

 has been tested in the treatment of glanders. Good hygienic sur- 

 roundings, good food, with alteratives and tonics, frequently ameliorate 

 the symptoms and often do so to such an extent that the animal would 

 pass the examination of any expert as a perfectly sound animal. But 

 while in this case the number of tuberclus of the lungs, which are in- 

 variable there, may be so few as not to cause sufficient disturbance in 

 the respiration as to attract the attention of the examiner, they exist, 

 and will remain there almost indefinitely with the constant possibility of 

 a return of acute symptoms. 



In several celebrated cases horses which have been affected with 

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

 without ever having had the return of symptoms; 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 stringent regarding the prompt 

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



