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miserable stable sanitary were the
causes, together with that of laxity of
the laws, permitting the sale of animals
diseased, which were Systematically
sold and worked, which more rigid en-
forcement and better laws corrected.
And this fact was positively proven as
capable of inducing the disease. That
the mucus flowing from the nose Of
glandered horse becomes attached to
the stable and stable utensils, and
comes almost necessarily in contact
with the water, hay, and straw, which
horses in the same stable and sheds oc-
cupy, exposing them, and they have
become inoculated, and also upon fur
glanders and farcy are identical.
The same pus may, if introduced into
the system of one horse produce acute
glanders, into that of another produce
farcy, and into that of third chronic
glanders.
Also, the virus is readily absorbed by
an eXcoriatiOn or wounded surface, or
when matters containing it are injected
in the blood, and 1t may be absorbed by
the unbroken surface Of mucous men,
branes of the alimentary canal and air
passages (but in some case Of the diges-
tion tract membrane lining the gastric
digestion has destroyed the virus
The above are the only proven facts
by careful experiments under the OBJ
servation of trained veterinarians, as to
its nature, together with what the
microscope is revealing, placing it
among the group Of diseases Of germ or
bacteria origin.
AS stated, the virus by incubation or
infection may be manifested in several
forms, which were mistaken for distinct
or separate kinds Of disease in the
former study Of glanders, but are now
classified in one and subdiviIed in four
different class of symptoms, under the
following headings, acute and chronic
glanders, and acute and chronic farcy.
all originating from the same virus.
Acute glaLders occurs more rarely in
the horse, but in the ass and mule is
the most common form. 1t is intensely
contagious, usually three to ten days
period Of incubation, with the symp-
toms of infammatory fever, respiration
hurried, free discharge from the nose,
yellow purulent or sanious, eyes water
ing, and little Jumps eruption-like on
the skin, the membranes lining the
nose become extremely liberated,
slough. short breathing resulting in
death, which reveals upon examination
extensive inflammation of the MEM
branes of nose and frontal sinuses with
ulcers small round, and large irregular;
lungs infamed; sometimes purulent
deposits, also pleura pericardium and
peritoneum, and the brain and it's men,
, branes In some instances somewhat In
J famed. But most marked the mucous
membrane, softened, destroyed, and ex-
hales gangrenous odor.
Chronic glanders is the most common
! affecting the horse. 1t never occurs as
} a termination Of acute glanders- IGcn-:.
baton from few days to a year; gem
eral health but little affected; glands
, under the jaw swollen and hardening
, or indurated; discharge from one or
, both nostrils. mostly from one, usually
! the left, which is at first watery, be-
: coming more gluey, purulent, saniouS
and fetid; follicular enlargement and
/ liberation occur on the mucous mem
brane of the nose. The horse may ap-
, pear in perfect health until placed
under unfavorable circumstances, i'll
fed, overwork, not groomed and poor
l stable Symptoms of acute glanders
, rapidly make their appearance. and
7 death soon follows, with the following
! characteristics of morbid anatomy:
3 Follicular enlargements from size Of .
r pins head to that Of large patches OF
: yellowish-whit color with smooth sur
D face; elevations and patches soften in
the center, and then present the ap-
pearance of excavated ulcers; the ulcer
D ations may not only appear on the
4 mucous membrane, but affect the bones.
5 the larynx, trachea and bronchi; at
y first little white elevations, which be-
come injected and ulcerate; the lungs
are intiamed; sometimes masses large
as a hens egg, of bluish-white, larda-
ceous or gelatin like. Some writer's
have called this tubercular, but Trous-
seau and his colleagues show there is
no ground for this opinion
h Chronic farcy is like other forms Of
e glanders, very contagious, and pro-
y duced by the incubation Of altered
: secretions of glandered horses; usually
a begins in slow Inflammation of the
1 Emphatic vessels and glands; become
g tender to the touch and enlarged, and
b swelling occurring in the situation OF
f the valves of the lymphatis, and called
0 farcy buds; an eruption on the skin and
!, tumor-hke formations; glands very
y liable to suppurate; ulcers remain:
t general health at first may appear good
z and then begin to show a general de-
f cline, loss of flesh, hair, rough, begins
!. to cough, and symptoms same as acute
: glanders follow, resulting in death,
/. morbid anatomy, as in other forms OF
!. glanders. with more general enlarge-
d ments and hardening Of glands.
s Acute farcy is different from the
i chronic by the more rapid course Of the
/. disease. The same Emphatic enlarge
|. ments, but with cutaneous assesses OF
# boils. legs swollen, dropsical like,
Il glands suppurate, nostrils discharge,
Q and membrane ulcerated; morbid
Q anatomy, the same as the other forms,
# The blood is poisoned in glanders and
l. deteriorated, which evidently depends
IS upon germ or bacteria which has