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kept very clean, and must be dressed with a solution of carbolic acid (1 in 25: 
of water) or other antiseptic. Such ointments as are called digestive are in 
certain cases very useful, 
In malignant strangles antiseptic medicines, taken internally, are very 
-valuable. We may mention sulphite of sodium especially. These cases are 
of too severe a nature to be undertaken by other than professional men. 
As the fever of strangles abates, tonics and stimulants are required to 
restore strength; and they are required where the animal is much debilitated, 
even very early in the progress of the malady. The form given in influenza 
asa tonic mixture will likewise prove valuable in this disease. 
GLANDERS AND FARCY. 
GLANDERS was described in very early times by Aristotle and Vegetius, and. 
we read of it as far back as the time of Constantine the Great. It is said to. 
be absent in Australia and rare in India, not breaking out unless it be 
imported from other countries. It is, for the most part,a disease of temperate 
climates, and is well known in Norway and Java, and not unfrequently it 
breaks out at the Cape of Good Hope. Dr. Fleming has witnessed the ravages: 
caused by this dread malady in Northern China as well as in Shanghai. 
Glanders is a highly contagious and malignant fever, which, though 
especially affecting the horse tribe, is also readily transmissible to man, sheep, 
goats, felines, and rodent animals, as rats and mice. Cattle, pigs, and fowls 
fortunately cannot be inoculated with the poison of this awful disease. 
Glanders, of all diseases to which the horse is liable, is at once the one 
most peculiar to the equine tribe, and at the sare time the one most justly 
dreaded. It may break out in four different forms: acute glanders, chronic 
glanders, acute farcy, and chronic farcy, and may assume very different 
degrees of severity. In the Crimean War glanders broke out in a very fatal. 
and malignant form, and caused very serious ravages among the horses. 
Of all the causes which predispose this noble animal to-these various. 
forms of glanders none are more potent than defective sanitary conditions, 
such as overcrowding, insufficient ventilation, bad drainage, and bad general 
management. It is well known—indeed it has been abundantly witnessed,. 
that horses crowded together in camps or on board ship during long voyages,. 
are especially prone to attack by this disease, owing to the deficient ventilation’ 
and want of fresh air. Nothing is more poisonous to any animal or man than 
breathing over again air vitiated by his own exhalations. How often have we 
tead of the numbers of victims in the days of the slave trade from 
overcrowding on board ship, and the case of the Black Hole at Calcutta is 
familiar to every one. Out of the 146 prisoners, 123 died in one night, and 
several of the survivors afterwards succumbed to putrid fever. It should 
always be remembered that a due supply of fresh air is quite as necessary im 
the case of animals as in man for the preservation of a healthy condition. 
Debilitating influences, such as old age, bad food, over-work, and lastly 
exhausting diseases, also predispose the horse to the fatal malady in question. 
