358 The Diseases of Animals 
When an outbreak of a transmissible disease oceurs 
among animals, the well ones should be removed from 
the sick and placed in uninfected quarters. Well animals 
should never be left in infected stables and yards. 
Medicinal treatment in most contagious diseases ‘is of 
little value. Vaccination or inoculation against them 
is very effective in some cases, and the use of anti- 
toxin, or blood serum, from immune animals, gives 
excellent results in others. Some kinds of antitoxins 
are now to be had as laboratory products. 
In treating animals sick with a transmissible disease, 
every effort should be directed toward making the 
subject comfortable and keeping up the strength, which 
will enable it to overcome the disease. In guarding 
against such diseases, quarantining is the most effec- 
tive method. Animals suffering from a _ contagious 
disease readily infect others, either by direct contact, or 
indirectly by means of infecting quarters, pastures, 
drinking places, food or other materials. In adding 
new stock to herds, precautions should always be taken 
to prevent the introduction of disease. 
GLANDERS AND FARCY 
Glanders and farey are the same disease, farecy being 
the form which attacks the skin. Glanders is a malig- 
nant, infectious disease, caused by a germ (Bacillus 
mallei) that attacks horses, mules and asses. It can 
be transmitted to other animals by inoeulation, but it 
rarely oceurs except in man, who may become inoculated 
from glandered horses. The virus, or germ, of glan- 
