Glanders

(glan’-derz) [glans, acorn]. A contagious disease of horses and a es, but communicable to man, and due to the bacillus of glanders or bacillus mallei. It appears in two forms — as glanders proper, when affecting the mucous membranes, and as farcy, when limited to the skin and lymphatic glands. On mucous membranes, especially the nasal, it manifests itself as isolated nodules which coalesce and break down into deep ulcers that involve the cartilages and bones. It is apt to extend down to the lungs and give rise to suppuration and pneumonic proce es. In man the disease usually runs an acute, febrile course, typhoid in type, and terminates fatally. Farcy is characterized by nodules (farcy-buds) in the skin and lymphatic glands, which break down into irregular chronic ulcers. 296