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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 tubercu- 

 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 carcass 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 



