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single case of the complete cure of glanders. 

 Seven horses were returned to their owners ap- 

 parently cured — all the recognisable symptoms 

 of the disease had disappeared ; six of them were, 

 after some months, returned to us more decidedly 

 glandered than they were before ; they were de- 

 stroyed. The seventh has now been away three 

 months ; but we reckon upon seeing him again 

 about the same time as the others, and in the 

 same state as that in which they returned." — 

 From the proceedings of the Veterinary Collegej 

 Alfort, France, 1833-4. 



" Acute Glanders. — MM. Renault and Bow- 

 ley have continued their researches on this dis- 

 ease. An inquiry into the nature of this malady, 

 its symptoms, and, more especially, its contagious 

 property, has acquired increasing interest since 

 its transmissibility from the horse to the human 

 being has been lately proved in so many instances. 

 MM. Renault and Bowley have arrived at the 

 following results : Acute glanders is contagious 

 by inoculation from horse to horse. Every ex- 

 periment of the last and the present year has 

 given this positive constant result. Without a 

 single exception, the symptoms of the infection 

 of glanders have appeared in the inoculated 

 animals from the tbird to the fifth day, and death 

 has ensued between the tenth and fifteenth days." 

 — Veterinarian. 



In the year 1861, my attention was called ta 

 seventeen horses, the property of Mr. E. K. B., 

 of Felton, Delaware, who, some six months pre- 



