4fi The Farmer''s Veterinary Adviser. 



with caustics (carbolic acid, nitrate of silver, corrosive ^ 

 sublimate, cUoride of zinc, or even the hot iron). Use 

 iodine, diuretics, exercise, rubbing, etc., to reduce the 

 swelling, and feed liberally. 



Prevention. 1. Destroy aU glandered horses, and all 

 with acute farcy and open sores, and bury deeply. 2. 

 There should be a high penalty attached to the exposing 

 of glaudered horses in public places. 3. Suspected ani- 

 mals should be secluded under veterinary supervision un 

 til they can be pronounced sound, or destroyed. 4. The 

 stable, manure, litter, harness, clothing, utensils, etc., with 

 which the diseased has come in contact should be thor- 

 oughly disinfected. 5. Neither strange animals nor men 

 should be admitted, and attendants should disinfect before 

 leaving. 6. Horses should be protected as far as possible 

 from exhausting work, chronic wearing-out affections and 

 above all impure and rebreathed air. 



TENEBEAL DISEASE OF SOUPEDS. 



This is a curious disease of unknown origin, existing in 

 Arabia, North Africa and Continental Europe, bearing a 

 strong resemblance in many points to Syphilis, and pro- 

 pagated by copulation. I name it here because of the 

 probability^ of its importation with European or Arabian 

 horses. 



Symptoms. From one to ten days after copulation, or 

 in the stallion sometimes after some weeks, there is irri- 

 tation, swelling, and a livid redness of the external organs 

 of generation, (in stallions the penis may shrink) followed 

 by unhealthy ulcers which appear in successive crops, of- 

 ten with considerable interval. In mares these are near 

 the clitoris, which is frequently erected, with switching 

 and rubbing of the tail ; in horses on the penis and sheath. 

 In the milder forms there is httle constitutional disturb- 

 ance and the patients recover in a time varying from a 

 fortnight to two mouths. In the severe forms the local 

 swelling increases by intermittent steps. The vulva is the 



