No. 4.] CATTLE COMMISSIONERS. 455 



The last day of October, E. M., a hostler, employed in a 

 stable in Milford, was admitted to the Framingl^am hospital 

 as a suspected case of small-pox, he being broken out with 

 an eruptive disease of some kind. He died Wednesday 

 evening, November 14. Wednesday, a few hours before 

 his death. Dr. Shea, one of the physicians of the Boston 

 Board of Health, saw the man and said there were symp- 

 toms present that did not coincide with small-pox, and, 

 upon asking the man's occupation, suggested that it might 

 be glanders. After his death guinea pigs were inoculated 

 with material from some of the lesions at the laboratory of 

 the Boston Board of Health, and also by Dr. Langdon 

 Frothingham for the Massachusetts Cattle Commission, and 

 in both instances these little animals developed glanders, — 

 proof positive that the man who died was infected with this 

 disease. 



An agent of the Cattle Commission was at once sent to 

 Milford, to investigate matters at the stable where E. M. ' 

 had been employed. Here it was learned that a horse 

 was killed the previous Tuesday, November 13, which the 

 owner had been treating for pneumonia, but, as it did not 

 seem to be improving, he had it killed and buried. Mon- 

 day, November 19, the carcass was exhumed and examined, 

 and found to have been a case of glanders and farcy. Two 

 other horses were killed in Milford by order of the com- 

 mission, one during the summer and the other November 

 20, because of their having glanders, both of which were 

 formerly kept in this stable. The man who died is thus 

 easily connected with the care of glandered horses. 



Another possible case of glanders in man has been re- 

 ported to the Board as occurring in Chelsea last spring. 

 M. F. was told by a physician that he had glanders ; he 

 later became an out-patient at the Massachusetts General 

 Hospital, where it does not appear any definite diagnosis 

 was made ; he afterward was under the care of another 

 physician in Chelsea, and died, his death certificate being 

 made out as a case of cancer of the throat. It is not un- 

 likely that occasional cases of glanders may occur in man 

 which are not reported as such, because the disease in 

 humans is so uncommon that it is not recognized by the 



