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By your instructions I have arranged with William Hunting, 

 F.R.C.V.S., that should the disease be suspected in any horse 

 from Canada he will, in addition to clinical examination, test 

 the animal with mallein, and have cultures made from the 

 discharges and inoculate guinea pigs to prove or disprove 

 definitely whether or not it is glanders. Shippers of horses 

 should not buy for export suspicious horses, or horses from 

 any place where this disease is known to exist. 



FRANCE. 



Professor Nocard, of Paris, has great faith in mallein as a 

 means of diagnosing glanders, and regards it as almost in- 

 fallible, relating to us his experience with 12,000 horses, from 

 which he had cleared out glanders by killing the reacting 

 ones, isolating the others and working them in pairs killing 

 them as soon as clinical symptoms developed. 



It is his opinion that glanders in certain stages and con- 

 ditions may be cured by the use of mallein. He has published 

 a paper on this subject which has provoked much discussion 

 and difference of opinion among veterinarians. 



DENMARK. 



Professor Bang, of Copenhagen, believes in mallein as he 

 does in tuberculin, but does not go as far as M. Nocard in 

 thinking it curative. 



GERMANY. 



(Professor Ostertag's views on Glanders.) 



He does not agree with M. Nocard in believing glanders 

 curable by mallein injections nor has he implicit confidence 

 in mallein. In support of his views he produced for examin- 

 ation the septum nasi of a horse with unquestionable glander 

 chancres, as bad a case as I had ever seen ; yet he assured us 

 that no reaction followed mallein injection. Being asked 

 what he would do in dealing with an outbreak of this disease 

 in a stable, he replied that he would kill all the horses giving 

 reaction combined with clinical symptoms, the others he would 

 isolate, but let them go on with their work, examine them 

 once a week and destroy all showing symptoms. 



