The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1884-10-22

established in its most horrible form, and death
speedily closes the scene.
Chambers may be either bred in the horse, OF
communicated by contagion. What we have
farther TO remark on this malady will be arranged
under these two heads.
Improper stable management we believe to be
far more frequent cause of CHAMBERS than con
'taion The air which Is necessary to respiration
changed and empoisoned in its passage through
the lungs, and fresh supply is necessary for the
support OF life. That supply may be sufficient
|oareiy TO support life, but not to prevent the
vitiated air from again and again passing to the
ungs, and producing irritation and disease The
membrane OF the nose, possessed of extreme SEN
sbily for the purposes of smell, is easily irritat
led by tins poison, and close and ill-ventilated
stables ottenest witness the ravaces of CHAMBERS
Among the causes of CHAMBERS are want of re-
gular exercise, over-eIertion, aud the stimulatnp
and facilitating cordials administered by sense
Hess grooms.
Chambers are highly contagious. Ii the dis
charge from the nostrils of glandered horse is
rubbed on wound, or on a mucous surface
like the nostrils, it will produce a similar dis
BASE III the division between two horses were
sufficiently high to prevent all smelling and snort
ling at each other, and contact of every kind and
they drank not out of the same pail sound horse
might live for years, uninfected by the side of =
|glandered one. The matter of CHAMBERS has been
mixed up into a ball. and given TO healthy horse
without effect. Some horses have eaten the hay
left by those that were glandered. and no bad
consequence has followed; but others have been
|spteullg IultCNeu. Inc HlanuerOuS matter muStN
come in contact with a wound. or fall on some
membrane, thin and delicate like that of the nose
and through which 1t may be absorbed. Ii is
|easy, then, accustomed as horses are to be crowd
led together and to recognize each other By the
|smell-eating out of the same manger, and drink
hng from the same pail-to imagine that the dis
ease may be very readily communicated. One
horse has passed another when he was IN the act
Of snorting, and has become glandered. Some
hlies have received the infection from the matter
blown by the wind across a lane, when glander
led horse, IN the opposite field, has claimed &C
|quaintanoe by nelghing or snorting. 1t is almost
impossible for an infected horse TO remain long in
"a stable with others without irreparable mischief
III some persons underrate the danger, it is be-
cause the disease may remain unrecognised in the
nnfected morse Tor some months, or even years.
and therefore, when il appears, it is attributed to
other causes, or to after incubation. No glander
ed horse should be employed on any farm, nor
should glandered horse be permitted to work on
amy ROAD, or even TO pasture on any field He
should be destroyed.
In well settled case of CHAMBERS it is not worth
while, except by way of experiment at a veterina
Try school, to attempt any remedies. The chances
of cure are too remote, and the danger of infec
ton too great.
Worse than ALL the man who attends on that
horse is in danger. The cases are now becoming
far too numerous in which the groom or the We
terlnary surgeon attending on glandered horses
|dies.
FARCY.
Farcy IS Intimately connected with CHAMBERS;
they Will run into each other, or their symptoms
viii mngle together, and before either arrives at
pts fatal termination its associate will almost in
|yariably appear. An animal inocculated with the
matter OF farcy will often be afflicted with gland
ers, while the matter of CHAMBERS will frequently
produce farcy. They are different types or stages
|of the same disease. There is however a very
material difference in their symptoms and pro
|gress, and this most important one Of all, that
while CHAMBERS are generally incurable farcy, in
It's early stage and mild form, may be successful
Fly treated.
Few things are more unlike, or more perplexinp
than the different forms which farcy assumes nj
different times. One of the legs and particular
~ one OF the hinder legs, suddenly swells to an
enormous size. At night the horse will apnear To
6e perfectly well, and in the morning one leg will
be three times the size of the other with consid-
cradle fever, and scarcely the power of moving
the limb
At other times the head will be subject TO this
enlargement, the muzzle particularly will swell
and an offensive discharge will proceed from the
nose Sometimes the horse will gradually lose
mesh and strength; he will be hide bound; many
eruptons VIII appear In different parts; the legs
Will SWELL cracks will be seen at the heels and an
inexperienced person may conceive it to be a mere
want of condition, combined with grease.
tarcy has been COMPOUNDED with other Diseases
but he must be careless or ignorant who nistook
spraln for 1t. The inflammation is too circum-
endon. -
Itmay De reauuy distinguished from grease or
sweiled legs. In grease there is usually some
crack or scurhness, peculiar tenseness and red
ness and gosslness of the skin, some ichoruus
discharge, and singular spasmodic catching up
of the leg.
In farcy the engagement is even more sudden
than that OF grease. The horse is well TODAY and
to- morrow lie Is gOrged from the fet-lock TO the
haunch, and although there is not the same red
ness there Is great tenderness, a burning heat in
the limb, aud much general fever. Ii is sim
ultaneous inflammation of all the absorbents of
of the limb.
Local dropsy of the cellular membrane, and
particularly that enlargement beneath the tborpx
which has the strange appellation of rqte,,-ftycu
nave Lone OF the characters of real farcy. 1t is
general debility to greater or less degree, and
mot Inflammation of the absorbeuts
farcy, like CHAMBERS, springs from Infection and
from bad stable management. II is produced by
ali the causes which give rise to CHAMBERS with
this difference, that it is frequently generat-
ed, and sometimes strangely prevalent in particu-
iar dlstslcts. The matter of farcy must come in
contact with wound or sore, in order to com
municate the disease.
The most effectual constitution remedy is the
fihiodide Of copper. 1t is stimulant of the alb
sorbent vessels, and a tonic The gentian root is
usually combined with it. Cantharides, in small
quantities. may be advantageously added. An in
dication of its influence is a soreness of the dis
eased parts, arising from the absorbent vessels
being reused into increased action; the accent
should then be for Il time withheld
The animal should be generously fed, have
green food, If possible, and free circulation of
air