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tbe same manner as were those of Mr. P. } 

 found these animals also glandered, and ordered 

 one of them to be killed ; the other died, making 

 seven animals thus far inoculated by one glanr 

 dered horse. These cases show the necessity 

 existing for competent veterinary surgeons who 

 have been regularly educated in the same manner 

 as are human medical practitioners. 



In my private correspondence with veterinary 

 surgeons, I learn that glanders is rapidly spread- 

 ing all over the country. Dr. Isaiah Michentr, 

 of Bucks county, Pa., writes to me as follows : 

 " I have just returned from a trip to see two 

 cases of laryngitis, accompanied with enlarge- 

 ment of the sub-maxillary gland, and adhesive- 

 ness of the matter discharged from the nose, 

 that led me to suspect that glanders might have 

 been lying dormant in the system, until provoked 

 so a development by the above disease ; but more 

 anon. One other case seen to-day was bought at 

 a sale of condemned government horses ; he is dis- 

 charging freely from both nostrils ; no enlarge- 

 ment of the glands or evidence of the schneiderian 

 membrane being affected ; still I consider that 

 glanders is lurking in his system, in the form 

 of tubercles in the lungs. I was called last 



spring to see a case of glanders that a Mr. 



had been treating for several weeks, telling the 

 owner at every visit that there was no glanders 

 about the horse, and he would cure him. The 

 case was well defined, and no man who knows 

 anything about the symptoms of glanders could 



