82 PRACTICE OF EQUINE MEDICINE. 



Cooling drinks, as potassium nitrate in the drinking-water. 

 Sulphite of soda may be given in these cases. 



Vaccination should be resorted to, not forgetting to isolate 

 the patients. 



GLANDEKS. 



What are the synonyms? 



Equina, farcy. 



Name the forms of glanders. 



AS REGARDS THE DURATION AND INTENSITY, three forms 



are recognized, viz. : Chronic glanders, acute glanders, and latent 

 glanders. 



Clinically, two forms are found, namely, glanders proper 

 and cutaneous glanders, or farcy. 



Define glanders. 



It is a malignant, specific, and contagious disease, which 

 attacks mostly the equidse, and is characterized by constitutional 

 as well as local symptoms of a grave character. 



What is the aetiology? 



It is due to a special germ called the bacillus malleii, or bacillus 

 of glanders, discovered by the French and Germans. Debility, low 

 feeding, overwork, bad stables, etc., put the animal in condition 

 to develop the disease if exposed. 



Describe briefly the micro-organisms. 



They are little, rod-shaped bodies, about two-thirds the 

 diameter of the red blood-cells, and have a peculiarity of living in 

 a temperature of between 68° and 113° F. ; at this temperature 

 they will grow, and can be cultivated, but they require oxygen in 

 which to live. 



They can be killed by freezing, or, better, by boiling water or 

 certain drugs, as the bichloride of mercury, 1-5000, or a one per 

 cent, solution of permanganate of potash. 



The favorite seat seems to be in the lymphatic system; the 

 germs are not, as a rule, found in the bile or milk. 



What are the modes of infection ? 



Some animals seem to have.immunity ; it can be inoculated into 

 some of the equine species, and especially in the ass, which is more 



