glanders was found to be very common amongst Chinese 

 ponies and mules in North China : yet cases of epizootic 

 lymphangitis were also recognized by me, although I 

 doubt very much if the Chinese themselves recognize 

 more than one disease : a veterinary practitioner, whom 

 I met out there, also only recognized glanders. How- 

 ever, Tokishige says the disease in Japan can be traced 

 back many hundred years, and although it was naturally 

 first thought to have been imported from China and 

 Korea, the Japanese hearing later of the prevalence of 

 the disease in Southern Europe and Africa were then 

 more inclined to think that it came not from China but 

 from Africa or Europe, and Tokishige, in a footnote, 

 mentions that Masamune imported Persian horses into 

 the north-east of Japan (but no date is given). 



In India, as already stated, cases were recognized 

 in 1894 by Moore, under the name of ulcerative 

 lymphangitis, which, in my opinion, his experiments 

 go to prove was really epizootic lymphangitis. It 

 appears to have been well-known in Burma for many 

 years, but Lingard was the first to recognize the organ- 

 ism in India, and was of the opinion that the outbreaks 

 in the remount depots at Karnal and Hapur, in 1899, 

 originated from mules imported from Italy in the pre- 

 vious year. But the history of the outbreak in the 

 Hapur depot, at least, goes to prove that the disease 

 originated amongst the Indian countrybred horses, as 

 no cases were recognized amongst the mules until 

 several months after the disease had broken out amongst 

 the horses ; there was nothing to show that any of the 

 mules ever had any symptoms of disease previous to 

 the cases amongst the horses, and Lingard's assumption 

 was made simply on the fact that the disease was at 

 that time known in Italy, but not apparently known to 

 him to have previously existed in India. My 



