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CLEMSON EXTENSION WORK.
Chambers.

IF YOUR horse or mule has CHAMBERS. or
if any of your animals are sick or dying
| with what appears to he Il contagious dis
ease, it is your privilege and duty to notify
the veterinarian at Clemson College who
will visit your place without expense to
you.
Chambers is caused by a specific germ
| bacillus Mallei) and affects horses, asses
and mules. The goat, cat and dog some
times contract the disease from living in
stables with glandered animals. Pigs may
contract the disease by incubation. Cat
tie and chickens are immune. The disease
attacks the mucous membrane OF the nose
and extends to the wind pipe and lungs.
| When the lymphatic glands of the surface
of the body are affected, the disease is
known as farcy. The disease is trans
mitted to other animals, including man,
by incubation through wounds or mucous
membranes. There are other ways III
which animals may be affected such as
common drinking .troughs, feed boxes,
managers, hitch racks, harness and. any
equipment used around an infected stable.
Symptoms: Chambers may occur in the
acute or chronic form, or may attack the
surface Of the body in the form OF farcy.
The acute form Of CHAMBERS begins with q
chill, high fever, the mucous membrane OF
the nose is at first hot and dry, and soon
there is q watery discharge, which later
becomes bloody. Nodulcs and ulcers form
on the mucous membrane OF the nose ana
discharge puS. These changes i'll The most
may take place in two or three days. The
| patients become very weak and rapidly
lose flesh.
The first symptoms of chronic CHAMBERS
are not easily recognized owing to thca alb
lsence OF distinct symptoms in the first
stages of the disease. First you will no
tice O. watery discharge from one or both
.Inostrils, which later on becomes sticky and
of q ycllowish green colored pus mixed
with blood coming from ulcers on the in
side of the nose.
When CHAMBERS affects the skin, it is
lcalled farcy. One of the main symptoms
may be the swelling of the joint with ell.
lgorgenent of the limb and nodules may
form along the line of the l~ymphatics.
These nodules vary in size from a pea to q
hens egg and have a tendency to soften
and discharge pus, after which they heal
rapidly. Other noduleS may form follow
ling the same course as the previous ones.
Prevention: All glandered animals should
| be Immediately destroyed, and not allowed
Ito come in contact with healthy animals
Through stables, common drinking
Itroughs, harness OF any other stable
equipment. All suspicious animals should
/ be isolated until examined by a competent
veterinarian. Infected buildings should be
thoroughly disinfected with five per cent.
carbolic acid solution or a one to five hun
dred corrosive sublimate solution. Then
all wood work should be white washed.
In doubtful cases of CHAMBERS, the NAL
lein test is given. This test should only he
given by a qualified veterinarian and until
It is determined whether a suspicious case
is or is not CHAMBERS, the animal should be
kept apart from all other animals. Re-
member that the disease is occasionally
transmitted to the human and is incurable
in man or beast. r. O. Feeley,
Clemson College.