GLANDERS IN CARNIVORA.
All carnivora are liable to contract glanders by eating the flesh of glandered horses, asses and mules, and this has been noted especially in menageries. Lions, tigers, bears and wolves, have shown the ulcerous lesions in the nose, and the nodules in the lungs, spleen, liver, kidneys and elsewhere. The carcass of the diseased horse is, however, often devoured without evil result, and even when the carnivora become affected the disease is not always fatal.
In the dog, experimental glanders has been closely studied by many observers. Casual glanders has been contracted by living with the glandered horse; by licking his nasal or other discharges, and by eating his flesh. The disease has also been conveyed from dog to dog by licking each other. In many cases even inoculated glanders produces only a local ulcerous inflammatory lesion with or without hard swelling of the adjacent lymphatics, and engorgement of the lymph glands. After a rather tardy granulation and cicatrisation, the symptoms subside and the animal is restored to health. Yet such benignity does not depend on any lessened virulence of the bacillus, for an inoculation of the discharges on the ass produces acute and fatal glanders.