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with my diagnosis and because the attending veterinarian, Dr. A. F. McMaster, had 

 given an opinion only the day before that the animal was not glandered. 



The following morning (September 22), just before 9 o'clock, the owner, in com- 

 pany with Dr. McMaster, the attending veterinarian, Dr. C. B. Eobinson, of the 

 District government, and Mr. Mann, of the People's Mutual Live Stock Insurance 

 Company, visited the station to re-examine the animal. Dr. McMaster still gave a 

 diagnosis of catarrhal ozoena. Dr. Robinson gave a qualified diagnosis of glanders. 

 Later in the day Drs. Robinson and McMaster visited the stables and examined the 

 black gelding, Case II. After this examination Dr. Robinson suspecting that both 

 horses had glanders advised the parties to send the black horse to the station, which 

 they did the following Monday morning, the 24th instant. Monday afternoon Dr. 

 Robinson, in company with Dr. C. L. Moulton, visited the station and re-examined 

 both animals. They agreed in confirming my diagnosis of both cases. 



This morning (September 25) I killed and examined both animals in the presence 

 of Drs. McMaster, Robinson, Moulton, and Lippencott. 



Autopsy, Case I, gray mare. The whole nasal septum on both sides nearly cov- 

 ered with the glanderous patches above described. The ulcers were more granular, 

 the discharge more glairy- viscid, and the pituitary membrane darker colored than 

 when I first examined them. The adjacent mucosa lining the sinuses and cover- 

 ing the turbinated bones, thickened, one continuous sheet of ulceration, dotted with 

 nodular or whitish points one to three lines across. The examination carried no 

 further. 



The autopsy satisfactorily confirmed the diagnosis of acute glanders with all pres- 

 ent, Dr. McMaster reluctantly admitting the correctness of the diagnosis. 



Autopsy Case II, black gelding. In addition to the lesions described in the ex- 

 amination, the mucosa on the ventral half of the upper third of the right side of the 

 septum nasi presented an unhealthy, raw surface, from which the epithelium was 

 removed and the surface found dotted with numerous small erosions and nodules. 

 The adjacent mucosa of the septum also showed isolated erosions and cicatrices. 

 The mucosa covering a considerable portion of the turbinated bones similarly af- 

 fected. In the right frontal sinuses the mucosa thickened, of an ulcerate character, 

 near the orifice to the nasal cavity being greatly thickened, and the periosteum be- 

 neath destroyed, with slight necrosis of the bone. Left nasal chamber normal. A 

 few nodules scattered throughout each lung. 



The autopsy confirmed the diagnosis of chrome glanders to the satisfaction of Drs. 

 Moulton, Robinson, Lippencott, and myself. But Dr. McMaster being of opinion 

 that the horse was not glandered, to him the lesions showed no evidence of glan- 

 ders, but rather of a catarrhal trouble, the present discharge being due to necrosis 

 of bone beneath the diseased mucosa. 



On October 13 Dr. Kilborne visited stables at the foot of Four-and- 

 a-half street, Washington, D. C., for the purpose of inspecting 2 

 horses which had been reported as probably glandered by the agent 

 of the Humane Society. Both animals were found suffering with 

 glanders, but were quarantined until the 15th of the month, when 

 they were shot. 



Again, on October 29, Dr. Kilborne examined and had shot 2 horses 

 afflicted with glanders on F street northwest, Washington, D. C. 

 The following report gives the results of Dr. Kilborne's examination: 



Case No. 1. Bay gelding about ten or twelve years old. Temperature 105 F. 

 Greatly emaciated. A copious glairy, purulent discharge from right nostril, adhe- 

 rent in quantities and drying all around the nostril, Only slight discharge from 

 left nostril. Right surface of septum nasi entirely covered (or far as visible) with 

 glanderous ulceration. No ulceration seen in left. Sub-maxillary lymphatic glands 

 only slightly enlarged, free. No farcy buds noticed. 



Case No. 2. Brown gelding, also greatly emaciated. Temperature 103 F. Hind 

 limbs stocking. Sub-maxillary glands and skin same as case 1. Discharge and 

 ulceration of both nostrils same as right nostril of case 1. 



No autopsy in either case. 



Both horses were being treated for catarrhal inflammation or nasal gleet by one 

 William C. Kimpton, a so-called veterinary surgeon, who bled both animals from 

 the neck only yesterday. 



On same day (October 29) Dr. Kilborne examined a horse at the 

 foot of South Capitol street, Washington, D. C. The animal was 

 found suffering with farcy, and was shot, 



