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of open sores (mercuric chloride, iodized phenol, cupric sulphate, saturated, 

 zinc chloride), excise nodule. For delicate mucous surfaces Lugol's solu- 

 tion of iodine or iodized phenol diluted. Tonics : arseniate of strychnia, 

 copper biniodide, baryta nitrate, iron sulphate, sulphites, bisulphites, hj po- 

 sulphites, phenic acid, open air life at pasture, or thorough ventilation, 

 sunshine, moderate exercise , generous, partly grain diet. Mild cases in 

 separate herd, in secluded, wide pasture with rich diet, including grain , 

 and shelter in clean, comfortable shed at will, under tonics and antiseptics, 

 tested by mallein at intervals, to be restored individually to work after two 

 or more tests without reaction. Serum of immune animals subcutem. 

 Treatment in man : surgically as in the horse, excision, curetting, antisep- 

 sis, abscesses opened and disinfected; iodoform insufflations, antiseptic 

 gases, sprays and solutions. Internally : tonics, sulpho-carbolates, iron 

 muriate, iodides, phenic acid, quinia, strychnia, arsenite, stimulants, serum 

 treatment, pure air, out door life, rich, digestible food 



Radical efforts at prevention must look to the extinction of 

 the disease in the soliped, and its complete exclusion from Aus- 

 tralia and New Zealand shows that such a result is not unattain- 

 able. In the English army where every glandered horse is at 

 once killed and all pertaining to him disinfected, the disease is 

 now virtually unknown except in the case of newly purchased 

 horses or regiments operating in the field. In the French army 

 which formerly lost 9 per cent, per annum from glanders, now 

 under similar precautions loses but .5 per cent. A law providing 

 for the prompt destruction of every glandered soliped and the 

 safe disinfection of carcasses, stables, harness, vehicles, utensils, 

 fodder, litter and manure that have been exposed to contamination, 

 if enforced, would soon eradicate thq disease. But this law 

 should provide efficient machinery for its enforcement, and, under 

 suitable safeguards, an appropriate indemnity for the owner. With 

 the use of the mallein or serum in all infected studs, as a diag- 

 nostic agent, the campaign can be made sharp, short and effective, 

 instead of waiting as in the past for the slow development of oc- 

 cult cases. 



The greatest and most fundamental error in veterinary sani- 

 tary legislation is the lack of a guarded indemnity for the ani- 

 mals killed. I strongly urged this fact on the committee of the 

 N. Y. legislature in 1898 but to no purpose. A bill was passed 

 forbidding all indemnity for glandered horses, and an impetus 

 thus given to the spread of the disease is daily bearing fruit in 

 our great cities especially, disastrous to the health of the horses, 



