The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-03-25
CHAMBERS.
The Disease Which Is Deci-
mating Our Horse Stock.
Interviews with Experts and Breeders
Heavy Money LOss-SuggestIOns
Regarding District In
speefIOn.

| 1t has assumed almost epidemic form on
this island, from which it has been commu-
nicated to Kauai With view of eluci-
dating ali the facts that can be gathered re
garding it, and obtaining practical sug-
gestions for its eradication. a representa-
tive of the P. C. ADVERTISER was detailed TO
interview experts as well as persons inter
ested IN the ownership and breeding Of
horses.
DIR. JAMES BRoDH,
Veterinary Surgeon, was first interviewed by
our reporter. He said: g This disease is
called CHAMBERS, from the fact that the
glands under the lower jaw become affected
and much swollen. This swelling is not an
infallible sign of CHAMBERS, as the same effect
is sometimes produced by severe cold. So
with the discharges from the nostrils
cold may produce discharge from the nos
| trils, which will afterwards pass away. But
here, in these jars, will show you the I'M
mistakable signs of CHAMBERS. These lat
pieces of cartiligenous structure-that do
not look unlike vulcanized rubber in-soles to
shoes-are the septums that divide the nos
| trils of horses. Their surfaces, as you see,
are pitted with small sores with raised
edges. Those are the chankers of CHAMBERS.
When you look into a horses nOstrils and
see these, you may be sure that the animal
should be killed. and that, too with the
least possible delay. There are those who
profess to be able to cure CHAMBERS. It can
not be done. The symptoms of the disease
may be dried up, and the glands under tie
| jaw may be, and sometimes are, cut out
| extirpated-but the disease is in the system
and will show itself again, sooner or later.
Here is another way in which CHAMBERS
shows itself This specimen is part of the
lung of a horse that was killed the other
day as having CHAMBERS. You see that en-
| bedded in the structure of the lung are
small grains ubercules, they are called
/ each about the size of grain of millet
They are quite hard, as you can tell by feel
! ing. This is what is called tubercular
CHAMBERS, and horse affected by it will
have a dry, uneasy cough. He must be
wa tched carefully, and in time the cause of
the cough will lie made apparent"
! What do you think was the cause of the
death of the stations Bazaar and Donald
Dinnie, DoctorP'
''They both died from the same cause
| Inflammation of the bowels, brought on by
gorging themselves with rice hulls. 1t
should be understood by owners of horses
that horses will often nibbIe and chew at
most nything when they standing idle,
and when they are bedded on rice hulls and
their halters are long enough to enable
| them to get at the hulls, they will eat them.
Rice hulls are very indigestable, and like
over-ripe timothy hay produces purg
De- 70 mill Of i,Ho
ton of the bowels, and when it is remem-
bered that horse has about 120 feet of
bowels, while human being has but about
80, it will be seen that any Inflammation of
that organ in the horse is a very serious
matter. In fact, it is almost always fatal.
1 would not permit horse of mine to eat
rice bulls, and I consider it my duty to
warn people against their use as bedding, on
account of the risk run of the horses getting
at them"
''What are the prospects in regard to the
CHAMBERS E"
81 have no doubt the disease will be
stamped out inside of year. There is one
| or two things that should be done yet.
People should be very careful to report any
sickness Of their horses. If they prove to be
glandered, they be taken care of before
they communicate the disease to others. If
it is some durable disease they are troubled
with it will always be to the advantage of
owners to take it in good time"
Is the disease dangerous to human be-
ings-is it communicable {? -
Most assuredly it is. There have been
some well recognized cases among human
i haip hot raToinHS hal
have been handling these specimens 1 will
give you a weak solution Of carbolic acid
in which you had better battle your hands"
The P. @. ADVERTISER representative did
so, and went away smelling like superan-
nuated stove pipe, to interview the second
member of the Board of Inspectors of Ami
mails.
| CAPTAIN JOHN BROWN.
There is probably no person in this COM
munity who has better practical knowl-
edge of horses and their habits than this
gentleman. And it will be conceded by all
who know Captain Brown that what he I'M
dertakes to do he accomplishes if it is to be
done. He keeps very complete records of
the work done by the Board, and from his
books the following facts have been OBJ
tanned.
Since December g, 1884, up to the 21st
instant, 81 horses and one mule were de-
stroyed by order of the Board as being
gIandered. In many cases horses have been
condemned by the Board, and then, at the
urgent request of owners, who guaranteed
their isolation, have been spared for a few
days until, happened in every instance,
, the owners were satisfied that the Board
we're right. The animals were then killed.
, Twenty-eight horses were killed at the re-
quest of the owners.
Captain Brown was unable to say what
was the pecuniary loss entailed by the kill
ing of this stock. In this connection he
said THE fact is, if horse has the
CHAMBERS when we examine him, he isn't
worth a copper. If he has not got the
= CHAMBERS, then there is no occasion to value
him, because he does not come under our
I treatment
q conclude, then, that you do not think a
glandered horse can be cured -
Cured? The only thing you can cure a
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