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ceedccl from tlie disease first (lia.a:nosticated, than to admit a diagnostic 

 mistake. So with farcy. It undoubtedly lias happened a great many 

 times that the first symptoms of farcy have been mistaken for an inflam- 

 mation of the lymphatics, and as farcy in its further coiu'se becomes fre- 

 quently complicated v/ith glanders, it is easy to conclude that an inflamma- 

 tion of the lymphatics constitutes a primary disease of glanders. Under 

 certain circumstances I admit it is rather difli cult to discriminate at once 

 an inflammation of the lymphatics and subsequent ulceration or formation 

 of abscesses from genuine farcy, and so mistakes, undoubtedly, have 

 occurred. 



Besides all that, the diseases looked upon as the possible progenitors 

 of glanders are similar to the latter only in regard to a few external 

 symptoms but entirely different as far as the morbid process is con- 

 cerned. They lack altogether, during their whole course, from first be- 

 ginning to their final termination, the specific characteristics of gland- 

 ers, and a conversion of any one of them into the latter disease must 

 be looked upon as just as impossible as it is to change a cow to ahorse, 

 or a goat to a hog. Still, this does not exclude the possibility of an 

 animal afiected with one of those disorders, or with any other disease, 

 becoming infected with glanders or farcy. On the contrary, a diseased 

 condition of the respiratory mucous membranes seems to facilitate an in- 

 fection, if an exposure to glanders contagion is taking i)lace. At any 

 rate, the morbid process of glanders is always much more violent, and 

 makes a more rapid progress in a diseased organism, than in one that is 

 otherwise pertectly healthy. To get at the bottom of the facts and to 

 guard against mistakes, it will be necessary never to lose sight of the 

 specific characteristics of the glanders process. 



Notwithstanding all those cases of apparent deuteropathic develop- 

 ment of glanders, which can be found in the veterinary Literatui'e of 

 nearly every country, I am not afraid to say I do not believe that a 

 case of real deuteropathic glanders, one that can stand a thorough and 

 unbiased investigation, has ever occuiTcd. Geriach, in his treatise, re- 

 peatedly mentioned, says, on page 115, "A genuine development (pro- 

 topathic and deuteropathic) must be considered as not proved." 



Glanders, as well as pleuro-pneumonia, Eussian cattle-plague, and 

 scab and mange, wiU cease to exist if a propagation by means of infection 

 is made impossible. If, for instance, within the limits of the United States 

 all animals affected with g^landers were destroyed at once, and at the 

 same tijue every place where glanders-contagion may be existing were 

 thoroughly disinfected, and if any importation of glandered horses or of 

 the contagion were successfully prohibited or prevented, glanders would 

 at once beciome extinct, and would never make its appearance again 

 within the limits of the United States, unless imported again from other 

 countries. It is a disease that can be eradicated. 



I said before that glanders is most frequent in those countries in which 

 numerous horses are imported Irom other countries. This is an undeni- 

 able fact, except in regard to those commonwealths in which good veter- 

 inary schools provide a sulficient number of thoroughly educated vet- 

 erijiary surgeons, and in Avliich stringent laws enforce the immediate 

 destruction of every animal affected with glanders, prohibit veterinary 

 quackery, and do not allow anybody to keep or to treat a glandered 

 annual unless he is a qualified veterinary surgeon, and gives sufficient 

 bonds to pay possible damages. 



1 know very well that I shall l)c contradicted, but mere denials, or 

 (|uestions asliing where glanders originally' comes trom, if a spontane- 

 ous development does not take place, will not do. Such questions, of 



