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benignant in the subjects it affected, it was yet sometimes power- 

 fully malignant when transmitted, giving rise to the fully devel- 

 oped disease with regard to the intensity of all the symptoms and 

 the gravity of the nasal and visceral lesions." 



On the 18th of October an agreement was made to select four 

 horses to be killed, in order that there might be an agreement at 

 post-mortem as to what evidence would be accepted as glanders 

 before death. The first horse chosen. No. 2634, was one that 

 had developed the disease in the acute form since the examinations 

 had been begun, the horse having been, for the last four months, 

 at the Harvard Square stable, where glanders was said to be 

 " never known." The second, No. 239G, accepted as a very sus- 

 picious case by the veterinarians and the Commission. The third, 

 No. 2332, one in which the veterinarians of the road could detect 

 no evidence of disease, but was selected by the Commission. The 

 fourth, No. 2405, a suspicious one to the Commission, and was 

 selected by the veterinarians of the road. 



The post-mortem examination of the horses chosen took place 

 on the 19th of October, and there were present, besides the offi- 

 cials directly interested, Drs. Peters, Very, Howard, Blackwood 

 and Marshall. 



No. 2634, which was accepted by all as being diseased, pre- 

 sented satisfactory lesions of acute glanders and farcy. 



No. 2396, which both agreed was very suspicious, presented 

 chronic glander cicatrices on both sides of the septum, an active 

 ulcer on the superior part of the septum about half way its length, 

 and pin-hole ulcerations and tubercles on both sides of the septum. 



No. 2332, the case in which the veterinarians employed by the 

 road failed to find any evidence of disease. Pock-marked inden- 

 tations very numerous on both sides of the septum. As Boulcy 

 says, " The pituitary of these animals was grelee, as it were like 

 the skin of pock-marked man." 



No. 2405, one chronic glander cicatrix on the right with 

 epithelial erosions. 



The veterinarians employed by the road would not admit that 

 any, except No. 2634, showed any lesion of glanders, neither 

 would they state the cause of the pathological changes seen on 

 the septum. 



On the 20th of October the Board released ninety-five horses 

 from further quarantine restrictions, without regard to the facts 

 that they had been quarantined as diseased and suspicious of 

 glanders, and that an acute case had made its appearance. 



The next day Mr. L. Stockbridge gave me the following com- 

 munication as the reason of his action in the matter : — 



