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matter, and at the same places, subcutaneous injections were 
made on an old horse, and on the 19th of June he died with 
glanders. 
A third injection of the same mare was made with a pure 
culture of bacillus mallei, of the third generation, obtained 
from the spleen of a guinea-pig which had died from glan¬ 
ders ; the injection being made at the same places and in the 
same manner. A friction of pure culture, weighing about 
one grain, on potatoes, was made upon the frontal excoria¬ 
tions, and the quantity of virulent matter, mixed in two cubic 
centimeters of a sterilized physiological solution of natr. 
chlor. was used for an injection under the skin of the nose, 
alongside the nostrils. The pus of the abscess which had 
formed, examined by the microscope, and the preparation 
tincted with an alkaline solution of violet methyl of Loffleur, 
showed several rods of glanders (bacil. mallei.). The condi¬ 
tion of the general health varied much, being at times bad, 
but at others changing for the better. The temperature 
varied between 40.5 0 and 39-7°. 
On the 25th of September an injection of oleum terebinth 
was administered, by the Cagny method, but the result was 
negative, being quite without reaction or morbid changes. 
To prove the diagnosis of glanders as transmitted, a third 
time, to the mare, a dog was inoculated and gave positive re¬ 
sults, and was killed, showing at the post-mortem all the 
organs healthy except the spleen. Pure cultures of bacillus 
mallei were obtained, with a selected portion of that organ, 
and besides this experiment two pigs were inoculated, with 
positive results, by the virulent matter of the abscess of the 
mare. 
On the 24th of October three inoculations were made in 
a pup and two guinea-pigs, with the discharge from the nos¬ 
trils of the same mare, but produced no results. 
The conclusions of the author are as follows : 
1 st. In chronic glanders the bacillus mallei of Schutz and 
Loffleur may be absent, but in their place are found micro¬ 
cocci forming clusters, which under a weak microscopic 
power may be mistaken for rods. These micrococci present 
