CAUSES OF GLANDERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1605, 9 February 1884, Page 4

CAUSES OF GLANDERS.

Glanders does not now cause near the loss it did thirty or forty years ago, and it is seldom found as a prevalent disease except when neglect of the proper treatment of exhaustive diseases, imprudence from overworking, neglect of cleanliness, and want of ventilation exist It is a very well known fact, that exhaustion and debility, no matter whether from disease or from neglect, undue exposure, or exhaustive work, are liable to result in glanders. In regard to impure air. The Schneiderinn membrane, the acknowledged seat of die disease, is highly vascular—a tissue of blood vessels, a membrane of exquisite sensibility. • Thus vascular and sensitive, it is placed as a guard to the lungs, covering within and without these convoluted bodies, which in a manner (ill the whole of the nasul cavity, and it everywhere exposes its nucous surface, intercepting every deleterious substance No part of the frame has a more important function to perforin, no part is endowed with so much sensibility, no part is exposed to so much injury, Tho currents which are constantly traversing it, the thousand extraneous bodies which come in contact with it, the pungent and poisonous vapors which it is so incessantly exposed to, are all sources of irritation and debility, and we need not wonder that it is so disposed to inflammation. Nothing is more injurious in disposing this membrane to inflammation and its consequences than the destructive system of stable management which prevails in many establishments, especially in the underground, overcrowded, unventilated, filthy stables which are to be found in many of our large cities. The diseases wlikli may be mistaken for glanders are as followsOzena, curies of the molar teeth of the upper jaw, sinus of the palate, and polypus of the nose. Ozena is a disease which closely resembles glanders, and the lino of distinction between these diseases is sometimes finely drawn, The same structures are alfected in both maladies and to crown all, if the former be neglected, especially if circumstances prove favorable—such as bad ventilation of the stable, exposure of the animal to' cold or wet, together with a poor diet —it may readily pass into the more formidable disease, glanders,