Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-12-04
Chambers in Horses.

THE genuine glanders consist of the
liberation of the lining membrane of the
nostrils of horse, in which numerous
pustules are formed, which discharge an
offensive pus of thick, greenish color.
Besides this, the glands beneath the jaw
are somewhat swollen and inflamed.
Hence the term "glanders" Thousands
of horses have been doomed to death on
account of glanders when in fact the
ailment was nothing but a catarrh. A
case recently occurred in Brooklyn,
when the authorities required the owner
of horse to deliver him to death, be-
cause they decided that he had the
glanders. Hence the animal was taken
to the place of execution. But on ac-
count of some unavoidable delay man
who eats horse-flesh was allowed to take
that horse home. After few days
there were no signs of glanders. The
question then arose; To whom did the
horse legitimately belong? How the
point was decided the writer has not as
yet been advised. Another horse, whose
nostrils were constantly smeared with
mucus, was pronounced as having the
glanders. His owner hurried him away
to the country to save him from the city
authorities. We saw the horse the same
day on his way to the country stable,
and although muCus flowed freely from
both nostrils there were no real signs of
the glanders. The glands beneath the
jaw were not enlarged at all, and the
membrane of his nostrils appeared en-
tirely healthful. We are familiar with
writers and quack veterinarians who
write and speak grandiloquently" on
the subject of glanders, but who never
saw a real glandered horse. A horse
may have some bad distemper, may
have the catarrh badly and discharge
large quantities of offensive matter
from his nostrils, yet there may
be no reliable symptoms of the
glanders. Look into the nostrils of
healthy horse; pull each one open, so
that you can get fair view of the red
lining and daguerreotype that appear
ance on your vision; then open the nos
trils of other horses and see how the ap-
pearance resembles that of healthy
animal. Then feel of the glands beneath
the under jaw. If the glands Ste in
famed and tender, and if you can per-
ceive small ulcers in the membrane of
the nostrils, from which purulent pus is
being discharged, give that horse broad
berth, as the real glanders, when once
seated, cannot be cured
Chambers is disease that is fearfully
contagious. One horse will not only
take it from another, but human beings
will take it from horses. The London
Veterinarian reports over sixty cases of
men having the glanders, all of whom
died with this disease except three.
Chambers are caused, or superinduced,
by the inhuman treatment of horses.
When horses are overdriven repeatedly
and are allowed to take cold frequently,
then confined in foul stables, and are
kicked and whanged and pommeled and
jerked and whipped, worried and fretted
until all the nobility of the horse has
disappeared, the animals are in Il fair
way to fall victims to the glanders. But
do not talk about glanders when the
horse has only cold. Let horses be
treated in such manner that the CLAN.
ders can gain no foothold. Ii fed prop
erly and kept in decent stables, and
never overdriven, horses will never have
the glanders, unless they take the dis
ease from another horse.-N. y. Herald