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but the conveyance of the affection through a quantity of 

 millt so small as that used in a coffee-cup, and the trans- 

 mission of the disease through successive subjects, argues 

 the multiplication of a living organism in the system. 



The malady usually disappears with the clearing of the 

 forest and cultivation of the soil, and is chiefly important 

 in that the meat, milk, butter, or cheese furnished by the 

 infected animals may be sold and shipped to distant parts 

 of the country to find human victims in the large cities un- 

 less due care is taken to prevent it. 



GLANDERS AND FAiJCY. 



A specific bacteridian disorder originating in solipeds, 

 and transmissible by contagion or inoculation to dogs, cats, 

 goats, sheep, swine, rabbits, and men. Glanders is char- 

 acterized by a peculiar deposit with ulceration on the mem- 

 brane of the nose, and in the lungs, etc., and farc'^ by 

 deposits of the same material and ulcerations of the lym- 

 phatics of the skin. Each has its acute and chronic form. 

 The acute form usually results from inoculation, or in weak 

 and worn-out systems. Besides the common cause — conta- 

 gion — overwork, exhausting diseases, and impure air are 

 especially injurious. The specific germ is a bacillus. 



Symptoms of Acute Glanders. Languor, dry, staring 

 coat, red, weeping eyes, impaired appetite, accelerated pulse 

 and breathing, yellowish-red or purple streaks or patches 

 in the nose, watery nasal discharge, with sometimes painful 

 dropsical swellings of the limbs or joints. Soon the nasal 

 flow becomes yellow and sticky, causing the hairs and skin 

 of the nostrils to adhere together, and upon the mucous 

 membrane appear yellow elevations with red spots, passing 

 on into erosions and deep ulcers of irregular form and 

 varied color, and with little_ or no tendency to heal. The 

 lymphatic glands inside the lower jaw, where the pulse is 

 felt, become enlarged, hard and nodular, like a mass of peas 



