St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-12
CHAMBERS IN HORSES.
Timely Suggestions by an Exper-
fenced Veterinary Surgeon
Upon an Important
Especial Correspondence Of the Globe. !

Especial Correspondence OF the Globe
SALTWATER, Jan. 9.-The question of
contagious diseases among domestic animals
is one of great i'm portance to all breeders and
stock owners, and is subject that should
enlist the united efforts OF our present legis-
lature to enact law whereby the live stock
of this banner state Sf the northwest will be
protected from loss BY such contagious dis
eases.
The law as it now stands is wholly made
quate, and does not meet the requirements
necessary to prevent the spread of contagious
aud infectious diseases among domestic ami
mails. Chambers is the contagious disease of
horses to which l wish to call the attention
of all horse breeders and horse owners
throughout the state, which prevails to an
alarming extent in the southern and western
portions of the state, and unless some mea-
sures are taken to check the spread of this
loathsome, fatal and contagious disease,
great loss of valuable horses must necessa-
rIly follow.
can call to mind many instances where
farmers have lost heavily by trading for or
buying CLAN dered horse.
One case occurred few years ago in Will
low Creek township, Blue Earth county, Min
nesota, where farmer had five nice large
brood mares, valued at 5000 each: and one
gelding worth 800. stranger came TO his
farm who had nice large brood mare like
the farmers five; and after some bantering
they exchanged horses. The farmer noticed,
however, that the mare had slight discharge
NIL -aH tla ctr
it, who answered.: 'Ohi that is nothing but
a cold;' the result was, every one of those
five brood mares contracted the disease and
all died together with the one he traded for.
Another case of hotel keeper in Mankato,
Minnesota, owned a mare affected with CLAN
ders. This mare he kept in his hotel stable
where the farmers put up their horses, from
various parts Of the county. The result was,
this old mare iuoculated four mules and
three horses, all of which died.
Another farmer living in Lyon county,
near Marshall, Minnesota, traded for horse
that had a nasal discharge which the owner,
when questioned in regard TO it, said, ''she
only had cold"
This horse with 'Sonly q cold'' cost the
farmer five good horses, together with the
one that he traded for They all died Of the
disease, except those he Killed. These are
all cases that have come under my own OBJ
servation in the last few years; and | know
of many others | might mention, but these
ought TO be sufficient to prove the necessity
of a law to stop such losses, incurred by the
trade and traffic Of glandered horses by un-
scrupulous men. The damages do not end
here. Man Is subject 10 the disease by moe
ulatiOn, and many cases are on record where
men having charge OF glandered horses have
been inoculated by the gaudered virus com
ing In contact with sore on the hands, and
the disease produced. and in all such cases
the persons invariably died. ! read, only
few DAYS ago, in medical work, where a
groom contracted CHAMBERS from a horse af-
fected with the same disease, and died. The
person who took care OF the groom also took
the disease from him and died.
Gamgee in his paper on Etiology of the
Disease in Man,in Reynold's system of medi-
cine, says: "Not only can the disease be
transmitted from the horse, ass, or mule TO
man, but likewise from one human being to
another. Several facts have placed this be-
yond dispute. A distinguished young French
Veterinarian, NJ. Gerand, died of ante-gland-
ers induced by wound inflicted on himself
whilst making the post-mortem examination
of a veterinary student who had dleG of
CHAMBERS. E.li9tson, In describing a case of
CHAMBERS, mentions that the laundrers who
washed the clothes Of the patient contracted
CHAMBERS. An exterue OF Paris hospital died
from acute CHAMBERS contracted from a stable
man suffering from CHAMBERS. In this case,
besides dressing the wounds Of the patient, |
the externe had taken an active part 10 the
examination of the body after DEATH
Ponder these facts well In your mind, then
decide whether you will go idly about
and allow this state OF affairs !
to exist or will you put your
shoulder to the wheel and urge upon
the members OF our legislature, the neces-
sity OF enacting law for the protection of
our valuable horses in this state, and 1i0 ii,es
Of human Beings.
There is law now ready, and will be pre-
sented 10 our law makers tO act upon, and |
hope every horse breeder and horse owner in |
every locality In the state will urge upon their
representatives, To use their influence for pass. !
age Of the law and thereby save TO the citi- |
zens Of the state thousands OF dollars of val |
liable horses. 4. II. BOLToS, V. $.
To the foregoing the GLOBE appends note |
received from a correspondent at Fort Yates, |
d. T.: Chambers is so prevalent and fatal
amongst the Bismarck aud Pierre stage |
horses that the Fort Yates military authorities |
have excluded them. Large numbers Of
horses and mules are dying and sick from /
this dreadful plague all over the territory.
VETERINARIAN TREACT, 9TH Cavalry, Fort |
Yates, ID. T.