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dressed antiseptically. Protect against flies. Internally, tonics 

 and antiseptics may be given : arsenite of strychnia, quinia, 

 iron or copper sulphate, sulphites or hyposulphites of soda or potash . 



Prevention. As incubation in the horse may extend from i to 

 3 months (Pallin), importation of solipeds from an infected 

 country can only be safely made subject to a three months quar- 

 antine, under the most critical veterinary supervision, every sore 

 being examined microscopically by one who is expert in recog- 

 nizing the cryptococcus. Then before release they should be 

 thoroughly sponged with a mercuric chloride solution. Close 

 supervision for six months more is important. Harness, covers, 

 poles, shafts, and stable implements and appliances should be 

 similarly treated or destroyed. In case of the appearance of the 

 disease in an imported animal, it should be at once destroyed, 

 cremated, rendered, or deeply buried, and the grave fenced in. 

 This is imperative in warm weather when insects abound. Any 

 return of army horses or mules from the Philippines without 

 such exhaustive precautions would place the United States in the 

 most imminent peril of a visitation such as overtook S. Africa, 

 Gt. Britain and Ireland from a similar neglect. In quarantined 

 animals any suspicious subcutaneous nodule should be extir- 

 pated ; it may be a focus of chronic infection. 



To suppress the disease in an infected country the stud or 

 herd must be put under the control of an expert on the microbe 

 and disease, who must make an exhaustive microscopic examina- 

 tion of every sore, ulcer, pustule, nodule, corded lymphatic, or 

 muco-purulent discharge from mouth, nose, eyes, ears, sheath, 

 vulva or elsewhere. 



Daily examination of each animal should be made, special 

 attention being given to parts which are specially exposed to 

 mechanical injuries (galls, contusions, bites, kicks, interference, 

 cuts, treads, insect, leech or snake bites, stings, surgical wounds, 

 etc.), but also to the whole surface, the mucosae, the superficial 

 lymph glands (submaxillary especially) and vessels, the coronet, 



etc. 



No common use of halters, covers, brushes, combs, rubbers, 

 scrapers or sponges should be allowed. 



The suspected herd should be picketed, each animal apart, or 

 stabled so that they" cannot bite nor kick each other, and a 



