The management and treatment of the horse in the stable, field, and ...

158 The Management and Treatment of the Horse,
GLANDERS.
Of all the diseases that are incidental to the horse,
there is none to compare to this most malignant and
most to be dreaded in a steed. The instant there is any
appearance of it the horse should be removed to a place
by itself, as this malady is extremely infectious, and from
want of due caution whenever a suspicion of it is enter-
tained, the most disastrous consequences may result.
Although glanders has been known to mankind for
upwards of 1800 years and the symptoms well described,
yet it is lamentable to state that up to the present hour
no cure has been found for it. No disease to which the
horse is subject has had more experiments made with it,
and all have proved equally unsatisfactory, and although
many cases are reported of horses having been cured of
glanders, yet when the same treatment adopted has
been applied to an undoubted case of glanders it has
always turned out a disappointment. Many men have
also lost their lives by becoming inocculated with the
foetid pus from the nostril, and fearful indeed is the
death of a man from this loathsome disease. Medical
remedies have alleviated the severity of this disease for
a time and arrested its progress, but it is certain to
return and prove fatal at last, and it is doubtful if ever a
case of true glanders was ever cured. There are various
diseases which in their early stages have much the same
appearance as glanders, and therefore it is necessary to
watch them narrowly, as of course perfect recovery may
follow. The very first symptoms oi glanders is a constant
discharge from the left nostril of mucus, clearer and of a
lighter colour than in common cold or catarrh, and more