326 THE MANAGEMENT AND DISEASES OF THE DOG. 



GLANDERS. 



Fortunately, this scourge of horseflesh is but seldom met 

 with in the dog. 



Mr. Fleming, in his " Veterinary Sanitary Science," on 

 this subject, observes : " The receptivity of the dog is not 

 very great ; indeed, not many years ago, inoculations with 

 glander virus were so unsuccessful in this animal that it was 

 believed it could not be infected. 



" Herting made experiments for several years, but they 

 were always incomplete in their results. He fed eight dogs 

 for a number of weeks on the raw flesh of glandered horses, 

 but without producing the disease in them. At first, however, 

 they were usually affected with diarrhoea, and faeces being of 

 a dark red color. Nordstrom produced the malady in two 

 dogs by feeding them with this flesh ; they had a bloody dis- 

 charge from the nostrils, redness of the eyes, and an oedema- 

 tous swelling of the head. They died.* 



"Lafpsse mentions the case of a dog belonging to Marshal 

 Neil, which contracted the malady through living in the same 

 stable with a diseased horse. Hertwig applied the nasal dis- 

 charge from glandered horses to the Schneiderian membrane 

 of six dogs, by means of a small brush. In two or three days 

 this membrane became swollen and dark-colored, and there 

 was a thin glutinous discharge, with moderate tumefaction of 

 the submaxillary lymphatic glands. When the matter was 

 inoculated on the skin of the forehead (where the animal 

 could not lick the wounds), in two or three days there was 

 swelling of the eyes, redness of the conjunctivae, and tume- 

 faction of the submaxillary glands. The wound inflamed, 

 'suppurated for about eight days, and then a black crust 

 forming over it, it healed in about twenty to twenty-five 

 days. 



" Of six dogs inoculated by Renault, two became affected, 

 * Tidskrift for Veterinairer," etc., Stockholm, 1862. 



