The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-09-22
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The following taken from late number Of
ehe Austin Statesman, will be unwelcome
news to the owners of horses. The g,anders
10 horses what consumption is 10 man,
imply incurable, although far more swift
and malignant. And II is as old rs the
world. We read Of 1t in Aristotle in the
dark and middle ages, as well rs during all
modern times. And then aS now no remedy
haa ever been discovered for it, AS it Is
4n.agious- from one animal
O smother by contact--it can be prevented
If il can't DO cured. When horse hassymp
toms he should at once be removed to re-
mSte rail peu--one mile from other
horses would be none too far watched
ciosely, and il the disease develops into CLAN
dera, he should be killed, and every rail of
q pen burned. Even then other animals had
beat DO kept away from anywhere about
there until after frost. And In order to pre-
vent flies from conveying tho disease the car
GAS had better also be burned, or ut least
buried very deep. Says the Statesman;
"The fact that CHAMBERS in It's most malig'
nant form has appeared in this section of the
state, few items touching the symptoms
and peculiarities of the disease will prove in
erestng. Writers mention the existence of
CHAMBERS in horses fifteen hundred years ago,
and 1t was then, as 1t is at the present time,an
incurable disease, and WAS 80 dreaded that the
british rulers pissed stringent laws against
lsing animals ,tll cted with II, just as the
Texas legislature has doue but it Is to be
hoped that the old English laws were more
strlctly enforced than ours are. The first
ymptoms of CHAMBERS that will DO noticed by
the ordinary observer ia discharge from one
or both nostrils. If from only one nostril II
will, In almost every instance, DO from the
feft The discharge Is lighter in color and
zn0ge transparent than that produced by dis
temper and catarrh, and Is moro sticky and
runs constantly. 1t is not offensive to the
n,ell at arst but after continuing certain
yeriod, according to tho condition Of the ami,
anal, 1t becomes thicker, mixed with pus and
very offensive. The discharge from the nos.
sra may continue in 80 slight degree as to
ba scarcely perceptible for many months BIO.
fore the constitution of the horse Is attacked
and begins to sink under IL, yet from tho be-
,ginning of the discharge the animal is Capt
6ie Of communicating the disease TO other
animals and to human beings. It's believed
tkst CHAMBERS can DO communicated only by
tho poisonous matter reaching the blood,
either through sore, 1r by coming In con-
iGact with some delicate membrane through
(which II can DO absorbed, or 1t may tnm.
uznnicated by flies. The sympton lere
given are not all that attic ID the disease, but
Shen enough of these arc observed to create
suspicion, the horse should be taken at once
30 a competent veterinary surgeon, and if he
pronounces II CHAMBERS, not one moment
should be lost before destroying the animal.
This may seem harsh advice, but when We
velect that tho veterinary world has pro-
nounced the disease incurable and certain
death to the subject, II is criminal to keep nm
sanimal that is every moment liable to com
e,ianicate tho dreaded pest. With close OBJ
starvation and pro npt action on the part Of
anse owners and vigorous prosecution of
crsnton violation of the laws in relation to
Sae disease, its arrest and extinction may be
speedily accomplished in this vicinity"