New Ulm review., 1903-02-25
STOCK RAISERS COLUMN.
The Losses from the Ravages Of the
Diseases Known as Glanders
In Horses. 81
HOW ANIMALS NAY BE CURED.
Horses need not be Killed il Pro-
perly Treated for Gland
Methods Given.
CHAMBERS AND FARcY.

CHAMBERS AND FARGY.
The germ causing the diseases known
as Chambers and pharcy, is one and the.
same being a semi oval, or rod shaped
bacillus, with rounded ends, and is known
as Bacillus Mallei.
Usually it is first found single, but
when grown on certain foods, 1t is unit
ed in chains or flaments.
When in culture or free from the ami
NAL, it may be destroyed, by being sub
jected to f31 degrees Farenhiet for 10
minutes, or by a 5 per cent solution of
Carbolic Acid or 800 per cent solu-
ton Of Corrosive sublimate.
The germ will live in moist material
about four months, but soon loses its
power to produce disease If exposed to.
alternate heat and cold.
The disease is usually met in the horse
and mule, and it is readily produced ex-
perimentally IN the dog and guinea pig
and man is not exempt from it while the
OK is considered imperylous to It's at
tacks.
When the germ invades the animal,
the disease may take the internal form
known as Chambers of the external form.
known as Farcy and there Is no way
OF knowning in advance the form it will
take.
When it takes the form of Chambers,
small ASSESSES are found along the nasal
organs, throat, wlnd-pipe and lungs, ac-.
companied with the swelling of the
glands under the jaw, which seem at.
tackled to the bone but are not. If the
ulcers extend into the lung cavity the
animal usually has a cough.
If however the disease takes the
form of Farcy, and the acute form, an.
intense fever and RAPID formation of
large number of peculiar assesses under
the skin will be observed, while if the
chronic form, no fever will be noticed
and only few assesses will be formed
on various parts of the body.
Both internal or external assesses
throw out a thick greenish yellow pus.
The external assesses, buds or buttons
some times called, vary in size from a
pea to half an english walnut and vary
from one fourth to an inch and a hall in
diameter.
These buds or buttons so called in time
soften and throw of the pus mentioned.
E Contrary to other ASSESSES, when the
pus is discharged, the cavities are found
to be bottle or ink stand shape; being
larger at the bottom than the top.
The acute form Of CHAMBERS is marked
by very intense symptoms, such as high
fever, shivering fits, unthrifty looking
staring coat Of hair, loss of appetite and
very RAPID falling off of flesh, and the
animal rarely lives more than two or
three weeks, unless prompt relief is Civ.
en-.
An animal may be afflicted with both
Chambers and Farcy at the same time.
In the chronic stage of either form, the
animal may retain good appetite, keep
in good flesh apd be afflicted for years,
and being in good spirits the diseases be
scarcely noticed by one not thoroughly
familiar with the symptoms.
Chambers and Farcy are what are known
as cyst diseases, that is to say, a colony
of germs become surrounded by the white.
blood cells, nature taking this method of
preventing the germs from entering the
circulation of the blood.
Any remedy heretofore known power
full enough to penetrate the cyst and de-
stroy the germ would kill also the am
mai, ana Tor tnat reason Tor many years
the disease has been considered incurable,
and even at the present time many States,
through ignorance Of its law makers and
morbid conservativeness of the medical
profession, destroy all animals afflicted
oreyen showing symptoms of the disease,
the loss falling upon the owners and tax
payers.
However, it was discovered few years
ago, that by taking the cyst sacks con-
tanning The bacillus mallei and cult
vating in peptonized beef broth, with
about 5 per cent glycerine and after
wards fltering to remove the bacteria
and after adding more glycerine pale
yellow stickey fluid is produced and
known as Mallin, which upon inocnlat-