Legislative Documents Submitted to the General Assembly of the State of Iowa Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... of a fixed infectious material may be found not only in the secretion from the nose, the solid and fluid contents of the nodules and ulcers, but also in the blood, and in the secretions and excretions of the diseased body, as the tears, saliva, sweat, urine and milk. Gerlach says: The communication of the morbid poison by means of external media, especially the harness, has been frequently observed. Some cases are also known in which the disease was communicated by the act of coitus, by suckling, by hereditary transmission, and finally by the absorption of the poison together with the food. The Boston Ploughman of March 2,1878, says: Horses occupying a different stable from that of the affected animal have been known to contract and die of the disease; and this, too, in face of the fact that they were never brought in contact with each other. And yet, with a full knowledge of the risk they run, some men are foolhardy enough to keep a glandered horse on their premises, prompted by the vain hope of being able to cure the patient of the disease. Dr. Youatt, in his treatise on the horse, says: One horse has passed another when he was in the act of snorting, and has become glandered. Some fillies have received the infection from the matter blown by the wind across a lane, when a glandered horse in the opposite field has claimed acquaintance by snorting. It is almost impossible for an infected horse to remain long in a stable with others without irreparable mischief. That animals showing but slight symptoms of the disease may communicate it, is abundantly proven by Dr. Detmers, who cites many cases within his own practice and observation. He also gives the following marked example, as related by Professor Spinola, in a lecture on veterinary pathology at Berlin: ...