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on its symptoms and on its diagnosis by 

 mallein, as these subjects are discussed in 

 veterinary text-books. If glanders is found 

 among horses at sea, all those which show 

 clinical symptoms of the disease should be 

 promptly killed and put overboard. Those 

 which give diagnostic reactions with mallein, 

 without external symptoms, may be isolated 

 or destroyed. The danger of infection from 

 such isolated animals is not very great. An 

 observer who is guided only by symptoms, 

 should bear in mind that the symptoms of 

 ulcerative lymphangitis (Nocard's) and epi- 

 zootic lymphangitis (Rivolta's) closely resemble 

 those of farcy, and that these two forms of 

 lymphangitis have been sometimes mistaken, 

 even by veterinary surgeons, for farcy. The 

 distinguishing test is naturally mallein. I 



