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


Such of the general public as are owners Of
horses, are well aware of the prevalence, now and
for some time past of disease amongst the equines
of the city, which has slowly perhaps, but surely,
been spreading; battling in many instances the
most determined efforts to stay its course. Pro
pretors OF the various stables III the city have had
several horses laid up at one time from the disease
and 1t was no uncommon occurrence to find stall
vacant that bad been occupied the night preyiousy
the equine occupant being either furnishing food
tor sharks at the harbor entrance or else poluting
the AIR IN one of the valleys to windward of the
city. Capt. John II. Brown, the agent of the Board
of Health. assisted by officer Reynolds has been
on the alert to Isolate much as possible all sus-
pected cases, but efforts for the common good have
often been retarded and thwarted by owners of
horses who were not satisfied with their ability to
properly diagnose the disease. There is NJ doubt
but that there is, even among judges, a diversity
|of opinion regarding the prevailing disease and
to endeavor to assist in reconciling the various
dlterences, the following extracts relative to CLAN
.ders and farcy are produced for the benefit of
readers. Ii may be well to mention that Dr. Bro
die, theyeterinary surgeon, pronounces the disease
TO be CHAMBERS, while other experienced horse men
Idlsagree with that statement Whatever the name.
the existing disease is known to be highly conta-
Slous aud fatal in effect, both to man and beast
CHAMBERS.
The most formidable of all the diseases to which
the horse is subject, is Chambers. 1t has been
known from the earliest antiquity.
Ahc SdAlAtot ElulHlUm OF GlhuuerS Is
creased discharge from the nostril. small in guam
lty, constantly flowing, of an aqueous lwatery) j
character, and little mucus mingling with il.
IL Is a common and very mischevous error tol
suppose that this discharge is sticky. when it firs
makes It's appearance. II is an aqueous or mucous
but small and constant discharge, and is thus dis
|tlngulshed from catarrh, or nasal gleet or any
otner dehuxion (discharge) from the nostril. I'll
morse Is IN the highest condition, yet has this
small watery constant discharge, and especially
from one nostril, no time should be lost in separ
ltlnG him from his companions. No harm will be
done by this, although the defiuxion should noiI
|racter.
The peculiar sickness and guinness which Isl
generally supposed to distinguish the discharge of
CHAMBERS from all other mucous and prevalent sec
retons belongs TO the second stage of the disease
and, Tor many months before this, CHAMBERS mayl
have existed IN an insidious and highly contaG
ous form. 1t must be acknowledged, however
that IN the majority of cases. degree Of stick
ness does characterize the discharge of rIanIers
from very early period.
1t Is singular circumstance, for which no salts
factory account has yet been given, that when one
nostri alone is attacked it is, in great majority
OF cases, the near or left.
This discharge, in cases of Infection may cnn
tlnue, and IN so slight degree TO be scarcely
perceptible, for many months, or even two OF
three years, unattended by any other disease even
liberation OF the nostril and yet the horse being
decidedly glandered from the beginning and can
able of prupagating the malady.
Chambers have been confouned with catarrh or
coldi but the distinction between them is plain
enough. Fever, and loss of appetite and sore
throat, accompany cold-the pudding of the food
and gulping Of the water are sufficient indications
Of the latter of Theses the discharge from the nose
4 protusei and perhaps purulent; the glands I'M
der the jaw, if swelled. are mnveable there il a
thickening around them, and they are tender and
bot. With proper treatment the fever abates; the
cough disappears the svellings under the throat
snoside and the discharge from the nose gradual
" ceases, or, if it remains it is usually very diff
terent from that which characteriseS CHAMBERS In
CHAMBERS, there Is seldom a cough of any conse
quence and generally no cough at all.
There are hundreds of glandered horses about
the country with not a sick one among them ForN
months or years this disease may do no injury to
The general health. The inflammation is purely
local. and is only recognised by the invariable ac
of Inflammation and increased sec
retion. It's neighbors fall around, but the disease
anects not the animal whence il came. At length
constitutional inflammation appears farcy is