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GLANDERS AND PABOY. 



A specific febrile disorder originating iu solipeds, and 

 transmissible by contagion or inoculation to dogs, goats, 

 sheep and men. Glanders is characterized by a peculiai 

 deposit with ulceration, on the membrane of the nose, 

 and in the lungs, etc., and farcy by deposits of the same 

 material and ulcerations of the lymphatics 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 — contagion, over- 

 work, exhausting diseases, and impure air are especially 

 injurious. 



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 some- 

 times 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 or beans, and are occasion- 

 ally firmly adherent to the skin, the tongue, or the jaw- 

 bone. The lymphatics on the face often rise as firm 

 cords. An occasional cough is heard and auscultation 

 d(jtects crepitation or wheezing in the chest. The ulcers 

 increase in number and depth, often invading the gristle 

 or even the bone, the glands also enlarge but remain hard 

 ind nodular, the discharge becomes bloody, foetid and so 

 ibundant and tenacious as to threaten or accomphsh suf- 

 focation, and the animal perishes in the gi-eatest distress. 



Symptoms of Chronic Glanders. This is characterized 

 by the same unhealthy deposits and ulcers io the nose, 

 varying extremely in size and number, often indeed situ- 



