THE USE OF MALLEIN. 
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College authorities should create some standard to be ap- 
lied in securing or retaining veterinarians in their positions, 
id should demand, in addition to the requirements of com- 
on manhood and education, special adaptablity for the posi- 
on of teacher or experimenter as evidenced by successful 
ork already accomplished in the line of proposed future 
uties, and not rely wholly upon the recommendations of in- 
rested preceptors or promiscuous laudations of incompe- 
•nt persons. 
Then when a man is selected for one of these positions let 
s superiors give him ample equipment and reasonable free- 
im in the detail of his work, and then demand results and 
;cept no apologies. We are constrained to believe that in 
le not far distant future these two lines of veterinary work 
ill develop rapidly, resulting in great good to the common- 
ealth and honors to our profession and to science in general. 
THE USE OF MALLEIN 
)R THE DIAGNOSIS OF GLANDERS IN HORSES, AND EXPERI¬ 
MENTS WITH AN ALBUMOSE EXTRACTED FROM CUL¬ 
TURES OF THE BACILLUS MALLEUS. 
By E. A. de Sohweinitz, Ph.D., Chemist, and F. L. Kilborne, B.V.S., 
Director Veterinary Experiment Station. 
Bureau of Animal Industry, 
Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D.C. 
In December, 1890, we extracted from culture liquids of 
icillus malleus an albumose which appeared to be the active 
'inciples in these cultures. At that time a preliminary ex- 
jriment was conducted to see if this substance could be used 
making guinea pigs immune to the disease of glanders, 
he result was that out of a set of five, three vaccinated and 
vo checks, only one, a vaccinated animal, recovered from an 
oculation of a glanders culture. This experiment has since 
5 en repeated on sets of ten and twelve guinea pigs with, at 
e present writing, only negative results. A note of this 
ork was published in the annual report of the Department 
