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hour's search and we were forced to return to headquarters for a 
guide. The animal was found to suffer from ulcerations of the 
mucous membrane in both nasal chambers with considerable 
sticky discharge from both nostrils, which discharge, at intervals, 
was mixed with blood to the extent of constituting a hemorrhage 
or epistaxis. There was, however, no swelling of the sub- 
maxillary glands and, as the animal had been under treatment 
for warts and tumors in the nose for several months past, it did 
not seem likely that the case was one of glanders unless as a 
secondary and very recent infection. The fact that the ulcera- 
tions were not located on the septum (the partition between the 
nasal chambers) in connection with the extremely swollen condi- 
tion of the mucous membrane immediately surrounding the ulcers 
likewise pointed to a negative diagnosis as far as glanders was 
concerned, but pointed on the other hand equally certain to 
epizootic lymphangitis, a disease which in these Islands has 
proved itself far more dangerous and much more difficult of 
eradication than glanders. It may be mentioned that in two 
outbreaks of this disease, both on the Island of Maui, though 
widely separated, not less than $3,000 worth of horse stock had 
to be sacrificed or died within a week or ten days, in each case. 
I did therefore feel a great deal more apprehension than had the 
case proved to be glanders. However, in order to eliminate the 
question of glanders entirely the animal was subjected to the 
mallein test, to which it gave not the slightest reaction, thereby 
practically confirming the other diagnosis. 
It may not be out of the way here to explain why this case is 
described under the heading of "Glanders," when, in fact, the 
animal was suffering from a specific infectious disease, not even 
caused by a bacillus, like glanders (bacillus malleus), but by a 
fungus (saccharomyces farciminosus) ; only that the nature, 
symptoms, course and termination of the two diseases, the latter 
almost invariably fatal after a most violent course extending, as 
a rule, only over a few days, and as the accepted postulates of 
veterinary jurisprudence are identical for the two diseases in 
those countries where both occur with equal virulence, it has 
been considered neither advisable nor desirable to promulgate 
special rules and regulations for a disease which for centuries 
has been considered as, or classified with, glanders or farcy, and 
which is not even possessed of a name comprehensible to a lay- 
man. 
When, consequently, the diagnosis of epizootic lymphangitis 
had been accepted, the situation became as stated very grave. 
The affected animal, which was rapidly getting worse, had be- 
longed to Troop A which only a few days before had been dis- 
banded and the individual mounts distributed among the eleven 
other troops of the regiment. If, therefore, any of the contacts, 
that is, animals which had been more or less exposed to the in- 
fection from contact with the affected animal, had become in- 
