198 SPECIAL EQUINE THERAPY 



increase in the number of graduate veterinarians and 

 the decrease in the number of non-graduate practitioners 

 in all states. 



It was not an uncommon occurrence for a non-graduate 

 to treat a case of glanders under the supposition that it 

 was nasal gleet. Cutaneous glanders or farcy was usually 

 treated as a case of chronic grease heel by most empirics. 

 It is possible for glanders to be entirely eradicated in the 

 course of time by the systematic use of mallein if, at the 

 same time, empirical practice of veterinary medicine is 

 prohibited. 



