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of the examiner, they exist, and will remain there almost indefi- 

 nitely, with the constant 'possibility of a return of acute symptoms. 



It is probable that some horses may recover from glanders if 

 the infection is slight, but it will not yet do to depend upon this 

 excepting under the most stringent veterinary supervision. With 

 good care, good food, and good surroundings and little work, an ani- 

 mal affected with glanders may live for months or even years in an 

 apparent state of perfect health, but with the first deprivation of 

 food, with a few days of severe hard work, with exposure to cold or 

 with the attack of a simple fever or inflammatory trouble from other 

 causes, the latent seeds of the disease break out and develop the 

 trouble again in an acute form. 



In several celebrated cases horses which have been affected 

 with glanders have been known to work for years and die from 

 other causes without ever having had the return of symptoms; but 

 allowing that these cases may occur, they are so few and far between, 

 and the danger of infection of glanders to other horses and to the 

 stable attendants is so great, that no animal which has once been 

 affected with the disease should be allowed to live unless repeated 

 mallein tests have shown him to have become free from taint of 

 glanders. 



In all civilized countries, with the exception of some of the 

 States in the United States, the laws are most stringent regarding 

 the prompt declaration on the part of the owner and attending vet- 

 erinarian at the first suspicion of a case of glanders, and they allow 

 indemnity for the animal. When this is done, in all cases the ani- 

 mal is destroyed and the articles with which it has been in contact 

 are thoroughly disinfected. When the attendants have attempted 

 to hide the presence of the disease in a community, punishment is 

 meted to the owner, attending veterinarian, or other responsible 

 parties. Several States have passed excellent laws in regard to 

 glanders, but these laws are not always carried out with the rigidity 

 with which they should be. (Spl. Rpt. Horse Dept. Ag. 1911; B. 

 A. I. Bui. 136; Ark. E. S. 35, 87; Miss. E. S. 16; Mont. E. S. 4; U. 

 Nev. A. E. S. Cir. 1, 1909; S. Dak. E. S. 25; Okla. E. S. 27.) 



MYCOTIC LYMPHANGITIS. 



This disease has been known as epizootic lymphangitis, other- 

 wise pseudo-farcy, or Japanese farcy ; it is a chronic contagious dis- 

 ease, particularly of equines, caused by a specific organism, and 

 characterized by a suppurative inflammation of the subcutaneous 

 lymph vessels and the neighboring lymph glands. Owing to the 

 fact that this affection does not spread as an epizootic and that its 

 casual factor is a yeastlike fungus, the name mycotic instead of epi- 

 zootic lymphangitis is suggested. This disease was first described by 

 Italian and French veterinarians, and the specific organism was dis- 

 covered by Rivolta in 1873. The presence of the disease in the 

 United States was first observed in Pennsylvania in 1907, although 

 it is probable that it has existed in various parts of this country for 

 many years. More recently its presence was definitely established 

 in Ohio, Iowa, California, and North Dakota, and there is a prob- 



