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Pus OF A Pulmonary Abscess in a Horse dead of Glanders. 



1. The nuclei of pus cells. 



2. The glanders-bacilli. 



Magnifying power 700. (The preparation had been stained with methylene-blue.) 



After Klein. 



From a Prfi-aration of Human Tuberculous Sputum, stained after 



THE EhRLICH-WEIGERT METHOD. 



The nuclei are stained blue, the tubercle-bacilli pink. Magnifying power 700. 



After Klein. 

 We must firstly turn to the consideration of the symptoms of acute 

 glanders. This malady appears suddenly, being ushered in with se\-ei-e 

 shi\ering fits. The temperature rises to as high as 106° F., or even higher. 

 In health it should only reach 100°. 5. The pulse and the breathing are 

 much quickened, and the membrane lining the inside of the nose is greatly 

 inflamed, varying in colour from a light to a dark brownish coppery hue. In 

 a few days the fever abates somewhat. It again becomes more severe after 

 this short remission, during which the membrane lining the inside of the 

 nose becomes studded with small tubercular nodules arranged in groups, or 

 more generally diffused over the surface. These little nodules vaiy in size 

 from that of a small seed to that of a pea. In a few days they soften and 

 become converted into ulcers, and then there issues from the nostrils a foul 



