No. 4.] 



CATTLE COMMISSIONERS. 



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obtained for iuoculation. Several other negative tests were also 

 made, where the discharge used was unsatisfactory. It is interest- 

 ing to note that in all the positive inoculations the discharge was 

 obtained from the left nostril, while in the negative inoculations 

 the discharge was, in the majority of cases, from the right, or, as 

 above stated, unsatisfactory. In only one positive case was a 

 second inoculation necessary, and here because the pigs died 

 about thirty-six hours after inoculation, of peritonitis, due to 

 other organisms than the glanders bacillus present in the dis- 

 charge. 



A most interesting positive iuoculation was from a man in 

 Lynn. There was a clear history of his having a wound upon the 

 hand, and of his constant attendance upon horses suspected of 

 having glanders. When seen, the lesions of glanders upon the 

 hand had healed to such an extent that it was impossible to 

 obtain material for inoculation. At that time he had had these 

 lesions and enlarged axillary glands for about three months. 

 From a sluggish lesion upon the instep, however, a serous dis- 

 charge was obtained, which, when inoculated into guinea-pigs, 

 gave rapid and positive results. 



Rabies. 



But few cases of this disease have been investigated. They are 

 classified in a special table. The most interesting was that of a 

 cow, this animal being supposed to have been bitten by a doo- 

 some time before she showed symptoms of disease ; and rabbits, 

 inoculated according to the method of Pasteur, gave positive 

 results. This cow was one where several others died in a herd at 

 South Hadley, showing similar symptoms, and having scars of 

 dog-bites on their legs. 



Tables. 



[It is assumed that, where an organ was tuberculous, the lympathic glands of 

 that organ were also tuberculous. Hence in the following table only such glands 

 are mentioned as were sent unaccompanied Ijv other organs.] 



Specimens Examined. 

 Cattle : — 



Aberrant supra-renal tissue in the kidney, 1 



Abscess ofliver, 9 



Abscess of udder, . . . . • 2 



Adenoma of pancreas, .1 



Actinomycosis of lung, . ........ 1 



Actinomycosis of udder, » . , 2 



Actinomycosis of superior maxillary bone, . .... 1 



Angioma ofliver 1 



