Glanders, Farcy 361 
glanders and a horse may have both forms of the 
disease at once. When horses are closely confined or 
are in close contact with others, glanders spreads quite 
rapidly, especially if there are debilitating influences, 
as on shipboard or in army service. In other cases, 
a glandered horse may work with a mate for some 
time without communicating the disease. 
When an animal is suspected of glanders or farcy, 
it should be isolated and carefully cared for, to pre- 
vent the infection of persons or other animals. The 
horse should be quarantined and the development of 
the disease very closely watched; the animal may be 
tested with mallein, which is a toxin similar to tubereu- 
lin, a rise of temperature, following the injection, in- 
dicating the presence of glanders. A more accurate test 
is the “complement fixation,” which must be made by 
an expert veterinarian. Inoculating a male Guinea-pig 
with the virus obtained from the discharge from a sus- 
pected animal causes swelling of the testicles of the 
pig and an angry sore at the point of inoculation, if 
the disease is glanders: If the disease is not glanders, 
no serious results follow. 
Glanders is practically an incurable disease, and an 
animal should be killed and the ecareass burned or 
buried deeply as soon as the danger is recognized. The 
quarters where the animal has been should be thor- 
oughly disinfected, by removing and burning all dirt, 
litter, etc., and applying a solution of corrosive subli- 
mate (one part to five hundred of water) or some equally 
strong antiseptic to the floor, mangers, partitions and 
feed-boxes. When this has dried, a good coat of 
