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from burnt, the walls and partitions being thoroughly washed 

 down with a solution of corrosive sublimate consisting of one part 

 of the drug dissolved in five hundred parts of boiling water; this 

 being completed and the place dry, the walls should be thoroughly 

 lime-washed and the wood-work repainted, after which the stable 

 will be fit for habitation once more; pails and all stable utensils 

 previously used for the affected animal must be also subjected to 

 a similar disinfecting process; the man who attends the diseased 

 animal must either subject his clothes, more particularly the outer 

 garments made of wool, to disinfection or better still have them 

 burnt before he ventures to appear in the ordinary stable; if these 

 precautions be taken, and nothing less stringent zcill do, then the 

 propagation of the disease ma}^ be arrested; but if the affected 

 animal was in a stable in company with other horses which so far 

 present no outward manifestation of disease, such horses must in 

 the interest of the owner, be subjected to the Mallein test here- 

 after explained, to determine whether they are any or all the sub- 

 jects of the disease in a latent, outwardly undeveloped form; if 

 they are, then they also must be isolated and treated as we shall 

 direct further on. As experience has taught that in a very large 

 number of cases considerable time elapses between the reception 

 into the animal system of the virus (poison) of glanders and the 

 manifestation or outward development of the characteristic symp- 

 toms it is a most important matter to understand how the presence 

 of the disease may be determined; but thanks to recent research 

 in Great Britain and on the Continent of Europe, a fairly — if not 

 absoluteh' — reliable test has been discovered of a simple character 

 that an}' intelligent horseman can put into practice after being 

 supplied with the proper agent; in England veterinary practi- 

 tioners are mainly — if not entirely — indebted to Professor Mc- 

 Fadyean, of the Royal Veterinary College, London, for introduc- 

 ing Mallein, the agent referred to, to the notice of the profession, 

 and further still for preparing and keeping up the supplj^ for those 

 members of the profession who are putting Mallein to the test: 

 Professor McFadyean in conjunction with one or two other 

 members of the teaching staff at the college have put Mallein to 

 the test in a large number of cases — something like one hundred 

 and fifty we believe — and as the result the professor gives expres- 



