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when it died. Two or three weeks after it was released 

 from quarantine, word was received that it had died ; and 

 an autopsy was held upon the remains at the New England 

 Rendering Company's works at Brighton, revealing a dis- 

 eased condition of the lymphatic glands in the head, neck, 

 and thoracic and abdominal cavities, of a nature resembhng 

 lympho-sarcoma. The other animal was reported to Dr. H. 

 P. Rogers, an agent of the Cattle Bureau, by the New Eng- 

 land Rendering Company, as a suspected case, which had 

 been removed from a stable where a horse had been killed 

 as having farcy a few months previously. A post-mortem 

 examination by Dr. Rogers revealed numerous small tumors 

 in the lungs, liver and spleen. Specimens from the lungs 

 examined microscopically proved to be sarcomata, — a form 

 of tumor more malignant than cancer. 



The guinea pig test has been used as extensively for 

 determining doubtful cases of glanders and farcy as in pre- 

 vious years, with the usual satisfactory results. This work 

 has been done by Dr. Langdon Frothingham at the Harvard 

 Medical School, who has also done the other pathological 

 work for the Cattle Bureau. Much of the work in connec- 

 tion with glanders has l)een done by Dr. Howard P. Rogers, 

 assisted, when there was more than he could do, by Dr. W. 

 T. White. Both have shown great interest in tlieh* duties 

 and have been indefatigable in their labors. 



As in 1903, it is again a sad duty to record three human 

 deaths from glanders, — one in Chelsea, one in Fall River 

 and one in Boston. 



In many of the instances where glanders is reported as 

 occurring in isolated cases or as small outbreaks in towns in 

 1904, where no cases occurred in 1903, it has been found 

 that diseased animals have been taken there that were 

 bought from a certain class of dealers in cheap horses in 

 Boston. On the other hand, quite a number of horses are 

 killed in Boston each year at auction rooms and sales 

 stables, which have 1)ecn brought there from adjoining cities 

 and towns to be sold, reported to the veterinarian of the 

 Boston board of health as glandered, and are by him ordered 

 killed. 



