The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-27
ORIGIN OF CHAMBERS.
Produced by Want of Cleanliness and
Ventilation.

SEATTLE, June Is, 1891
To THE EDITOR: Chambers is acontagious and
fatal disease, due to poison taken into or gen.
Grated in the system, which shows its presence
by discharge from the nostrils and degenera-
ton, more or less rapid, OF the Emphatic glands
and ducts. The poison can be conveyed to man.
in whom it produces fatal illness. The causes
of this common and formidable disease, apart
from contagion, are usually said to include
everything that exhausts and reduces the vital
powers, such as bad feeding, overwork, neglect,
foul air and filthy stables 1t is also liable
to be generated by putting horses into
new stables whose walls are not dry, and
1t Is frequent sequel of diabetes, in
huenza, the epizootc disease, and all other ex-
hausting diseases. When caused by contagion
1t is the most dreaded of all horse diseases, it
is so easily inoculated into the human species,
and is just as incurabie as in the horse. In
the latter, however incubation is not necess ary,
as the poison is disseminated by more subtle
means. Sometimes stables that have liveried
giandered horses have been thoroughly cleaned,
aired and whitewashed, yet new and healthy
set OF horses being placed in the stable. one or
more OF them would be down with the CHAMBERS
In lew weeks, without any other apparent ILL.,
ness FLANDERS occurs in two forms, the acute
anu chronic Acute CHAMBERS appears suddenly
by prolonged chills and shivering. AS they
pass OH high fever sets in, the temperature
sNhhAhS up " lVo VI luf degrees. Inc pulse IN
quite feeble and rapid. the respiration Quick
and the appetite failing, the eyes quite weak
and watery, the submaxillary glands are ALWAYS
swollen. The mucus membrane of the nos
trils is always swollen and of dark conner or
red color, with patches of ragged liberation
here and there, from which drops a bloody and
watery discharge. The glands of the face and
neck soon become swollen; they also break.
forming Assesses with similar sauious nus
coming from them The
ems, the respiratory organs become obstructed
the lungs become infamed, with death ending
the scene
Chronic CHAMBERS presents this same history in
much slower and apparently miider. but in
reality none the less fatal form The general
health may seem TO be scarcely affected. There
Will always be acknowledgements from one
nostril, usually the left one of a thin. sticky
nuld, which has not very unpleasant odor
sometimes no odor at all, and which dries and
sccumulates around the nasal opening on
feeling under the jaw the swollen glands will be
lett IKE hard knot, which may, however, dis
appear for time to return again The mem
orane ot the nostrils will have tawuy, coppery
or dull, leaden hue. The eve on the affected
SIDE will be weak and watery. Most always the
symptoms are more decided in glsndeIs than
have stated. The horse is off his feed. his coat
Is unhealty, he has cough, sweats on exertion
mere Is discharge of gluey matter from
one or both nostrils, often tinged with blood.
The lining membrane of the nose is studied
with small, deep ulcers, and between ulcers sud
membrane is covered with unhealthy looking
plmpies. \ distinct tumor can De felt between
the jaws, sometimes forming SD sbsess diseharg-
ing gluiinous puS. Ii well taken care of a
horse may live in this condition a long
tine, but be is liable 10 be carried
on by an acute attack at any
nine' Between the time of receiving
the eontagion into the system and the .npear-
Ahce oil TIE disease there usually elapses in the
acute form from three 10 six days. while in the
chronic form il may be two or three months.
treatment OF true CHAMBERS should not be at
tempted. However = great number OF remedies
are suggested was called today by 8 gentle
man to go and see his horse that he thought
might have CHAMBERS OF spon aueous origin,
that proved to be a case of pleurisy, which can
De cited later. He also insisted that rlsnders
did appear here of purely spontaneous origin.
Now this 10 something that have no faith in
at al Though IL may be the easel, although
some authors have stated tina; glanders ia eapa-
bic OF spontaneous development, but they also
say that as rule the active spread of these
diseases may be distinctly traced to contagion,
and IN fact all authors of weight have agreed
thai CHAMBERS is caused by want OF proper clean
Ansss and ventilation, producing . vitisted