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long, exhausting trips could carry pails and water them in this 

 way, it would be of great assistance in diminishing glanders. 



As a means of diagnosis in obscure cases of glanders, the 

 guinea pig test still has a value. This work has been done, as 

 in previous years, by Dr. Langdon Frothingham at the Har- 

 vard Medical School. 



In closing the portion of the report upon glanders, it would 

 be incomplete unless a word were said in regard to epizootic 

 lymphangitis of horses and mules. This is a contagious dis- 

 ease of the horse not heretofore occurring in this country, but 

 known in southern Europe, Finland, Africa, India, China, 

 Japan and the Philippine Islands. In 1904 it was carried to 

 England from South Africa. It has recently appeared in 

 western Pennsylvania, and a bulletin relating to it has been 

 issued by Dr. Leonard Pearson, State Veterinarian, under 

 the name of Circular No. S of the State Live Stock Sanitary 

 Board of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from which 

 this information concerning it has been taken. How it was 

 carried to western Pennsylvania has not as yet been ascer- 

 tained. 



The symptoms of this disease resemble farcy, and may be 

 easily mistaken for it. It is characterized by the formation 

 of bunches on the legs, which later break, discharge and 

 ulcerate. The pus from these abscesses contains the specific 

 cause, a fungus known as the saccharomyces farcirninosus, 

 which may be readily detected by a microscopic examination. 



Bad cases have to be killed ; mild ones yield to treatment. 

 Infected animals should be isolated and quarantined. The 

 disease may be spread by contact between diseased and 

 healthy horses, by bedding, stable utensils, harness, and pos- 

 sibly by flies. If the disease extends beyond its present limits 

 to other States, it may become a very serious and troublesome 

 matter. 



The United States Bureau of Animal Industry will un- 

 doubtedly take steps to prevent the spread of this disease from 

 one State to another, and the very efficient State Veterinarian 

 of Pennsylvania will do every thing possible to eradicate it 

 within the limits of the State. It is to be hoped that it will 

 not extend to Massachusetts. If it should, the State law is 



