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twenty-six years since I have been devoting a considerable share 

 of my attention to this subject*." 



Professor Gohier, of the Royal Veterinary School at Lyons, 

 in 1813, from some experiments he instituted with a view of as- 

 certaining in what different ways glanders could be communicated, 

 received the following results : — 



" Firstly : that of two horses, a mare, and three asses, upon whose 

 pituitary membranes glandered matter had been smeared or in- 

 jected, in the three asses glanders appeared from the sixth to the 

 ninth day; and that one died on the tenth, one on the eleventh, and 

 the other on the fifteenth day ; that one of the two horses had tu- 

 mefied submaxillary glands on the fifth day, and chancres on the 

 thirteenth, but without discharge ; and that the other had swollen 

 glands on the fourth day, which, by the eighteenth, had been fol- 

 lowed by confirmed glanders : lastly, that the mare had swollen 

 glands on the fourth day, and, on the ninth, chancres; and that 

 both remained stationary until the twenty- ninth, the day on which 

 she was destroyed. 



" Secondly : that of two horses, two mares, and two asses, placed 

 in communication with animals confirmedly glandered, both horses 

 escaped contamination, although one had been there a month, the 

 other two months ; but of the two mares, one shewed symptoms of 

 glanders on the tenth day, the other on the twelfth day ; the dis- 

 ease making progress in the one, tardy in the other. Of the two 

 asses, one became glandered on the eighteenth day, and perished 

 on the forty-first; the other remained a month in the stable with 

 the glandered horses without manifesting any sign whatever of 

 having caught the disease. 



" Thirdly : that of two horses, a mule, one male and two female 

 asses, on whom were put halters and clothing taken off glandered 

 horses, and who wore them from six to fourteen days, one of the 

 two asses presented on the fourth day well-marked symptoms of 

 glanders, of which it died on the sixth, but that the five other 

 animals escaped contamination. 



" Fourthly : that of two horses, a mare, a mule, and an ass, upon 



* A Treatibc oii Veterinary Medieine, seventh edition. 



