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subsequent experience of the disease leads me to think that 

 it has been in India for years, unrecognized, and con- 

 founded with glanders. I had personal experience 

 myself in this very same outbreak of so called unsatis- 

 factory results with mallein, and 1 am well aware that 

 many other similar experiences were also reported from 

 various parts of India, and that in each case the disease 

 being dealt with, was not glanders but epizootic lymph- 

 angitis or both diseases co-existing. In many cases the 

 appearances, both ante-mortem and post-mortem, were 

 misleading — the (mallein) temperature charts were 

 occasionally unreliable and appeared at times to be 

 subject to climatic and local influences. 



The disease next appears to have been imported 

 into South Africa during the war, as although it had 

 been known in Algiers and Egypt for many years 

 before that, there is no record of it being in South 

 Africa previous to the war ; however, seeing how per- 

 sistently it has been confounded with glanders, it may 

 have been there all the time unrecognized ; in any case, 

 there was ample opportunity during the war for the 

 disease being imported into the country by remounts 

 from all over the world, e.g.^ Southern Europe and 

 India, these being known centres of the disease at the 

 time. 



From South Africa the disease, as before stated, 

 has been imported into England and Ireland by govern- 

 ment horses returned from the Cape ; the first case 

 was, I understand, detected at Aldershot, in 1902, and 

 the first case detected in Ireland was, curiously enough, 

 recognized by me, at the Curragh in October, 1903, and 

 outbreaks have now occurred at several centres through- 

 out England and Ireland. 



