Morning journal and courier., 1880-02-07
Committee Case.
The Farmers Club.
A Paper By Dr. Rose on Glanders and
 

Paper BT DFe Rose On Glanders and
 Farcy i'm Horses.
 The New Haven County Farmers Club held meeting in Sheffield Hall yesterday after noon, the president, J. J. Webb, in the chair.
 The president, at the opening, stated that it had been expected that Dr. O'Sullivan would read 8 paper on s'Glanders and Farcy in Horses" He received word at late hour that Dr. O'Sullivan had gone to Springfield, Mass, to attend to the practice of 8 veterin- ary surgeon who had engagements with the State Board of Agriculture and that he would be absent for a month or two. He saw Dr. Rose the partner of Dr. OSullivan, at II o'clock, and he very kindly consented to read brief paper on the same subject. President Webb then announced that at the next meet ing paper would be read by J. M. Hubbard, of Middletown, on 'sFarm Improvements" Dr. Rose was then introduced. He said that gIanders and farcy in horses dates back to Aristotle. It is malignant, fatal disease, the whole system being affected by poison It hardly ever affects horses in cold or hot climates, but only in temperate cli- mates. This disease is more generally seen in ill-ventilated stables. Glanders may be in duced by the introduction of foreign matter and bad ventilation. The most common form of this disease is diabetes. The disease will spread by inoculation of the virus. It has been produced by transfusion of blood In notes of the London College we have two cases of young men being affected by the disease by dissecting house affected thereby Tie doctor then described acute glanders which he said almost always proved fatal. The swelling under the jaw and the discharge from the nostrils were sure indications of the Tn ha hou khn discharge from one or both nostrils, and the
 discharge mixed with little blood gives us the premonitory symptoms of the disease. The horse eats well, the skin is dry ' and harsh, and as the disease advances ! the symptoms previously spoken of become toms appear suddenly. The difference be- | tween glanders and farcy is as to the location of the disease. AS to the prevention of ! glanders, beside the killing of the animal, the | stable should be thoroughly disinfected and cleansed and then food should be given well | salted, and chloride of potash should be used | freely. Dr. Rose described case of farcy he | had in this city day or two since, followed by symptoms of glanders. He ordered the horse killed, and presumed that it had been done. In closing the doctor said he had only | been informed at II o'clock this forenoon tn at Dr. O'Sullivan would not be present, and a
 request made that he should read paper. He hoped, Therefore, that the club would ex- cuse it's brevity.
 MT. T. s. Gold, secretary of the State
 Board of Agriculture, asked what dis
 eases most resembled glanders. The
 doctor replied that chronic catarrh | and Liberation of the teeth were some | times taken for glanders. He said that chron- 1 ic catarrh might run into glanders by the | surroundings of the animal and coming into contact with noxious vapors. There was | very little danger, however, of glanders fol- chronic aQtprrh vuoa admitted that glanders could arise spontane- ously in animals. He thought, however that horses frequently took glanders from drink
 ing from watering troughs where horses af- fected with the disease had previously drank. | The doctor said he had known of twenty or | twenty-five cases of glanders in this city dur | ing his residence here. He supposed that
 they had been killed, as those were his orders, | invariably. The virous of farcy is not
 charged with that degree of poison that | glanders is.
 In reply to Mir. Geld, the doctor said that if
 was not necessary that healthy horses in the
 same stable with glandered horse hould | take the disease unless they came in contact 1 with the virus
 In reply to MT. O. E. Foote, the doctor | said that no cases are known of 8 man taking | glanders from the breath of the horse In 1 cases where men have had it it has been by being inoculated by the yirus Ihe symp. | toms of the disease in man are the same as in
 the horse, only more lingering.
 To Mir. Gold-There is no case on record where glanders once seated has ever been cured. Therefore, if horses said to have the
 Rlanders get well, I should say it was not a
 case of glanders.
 | President Webb stated that he had had | some correspondence with MT. Olcott, the az. | ricultural editor of the Hartford Courant, who
 had promised to read paper at some future
 time. MT. Webb thought he would read a | paper sometime in March. He also said that
 he presumed Dr. Rose would read anothe, paper at the first meeting in March. He sug-
 gested that 8 subject be named so that the doctor could have time to prepare himself. A | gentleman suggested "Tuberculosis'' as the
 subject, and this was agreed upon.
 President Webb suggested that more atten- tion should be paid to the question box.
 There were great many questions that were
 arising every day among farmers that they
 could not answer themselves, and if they
 would put their questions on paper and drop
 them in the box they would be answered by | some one.
 | MT. Crofut, of Derby, presented model
 for 8 stable floor, which wAs conceded. to be
 an improvement over old methods. Ad- | journed.