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When possible, it is better to note the temperature pre- 
nous to the inoculation ; this is, however, not indispensable, 
,ince we cannot tell, exactly, the limits of normal variation. 
\n absolute necessity is the recording of the deviation after 
he administration of the malleine to animals having pyrexia. 
Two hours after the injection the temperature should be 
aken and must be regularly continued thereafter for twenty 
lours ; if for any reason the record cannot commence just as 
lere prescribed, then the variation from the tenth to the six- 
eenth hour may be assumed as of capital importance. For 
he confirmation of glanders when occult, two inoculations 
ire made necessary, and, indeed, should there be the least 
loubt after the second injection, the third must be made, 
ising one half as much more malleine for this as for the 
irst two administrations—this increase in dose is warranted 
>n the supposition that the bacillus becomes inured to the 
nfluence of the virus. The immense value of malleine as a 
liagnostic agent, applicable to the developement and discov¬ 
ery of occult glanders, must be apparent, from these trials, to 
every thinking member of the profession. The destruction 
)f all suspiciously afflicted animals no longer becomes a 
lecessity in large stables. In malleine we have the hope 
)f ultimately annihilating glanders by extinguishing it in its 
ncipiency. Sanitary police has this year chronicled that 
vhich previous generations have conscientiously striven to 
iccomplish for years .—Berliner Wochenschrift. 
TOXIC EFFECT OF BEE-STINGS UPON HORSES. 
Two horses were halted in the vicinity of an apiary, which 
or some unknown reason became the settling-ground for 
:housands of bees, which inflicted innumerable stings. The 
renzied animals could not be approached, and as a result 
:hey continued to be the object upon which the multitude 
)f small insects vented their wrath. After repeated 
attempts to detract their attention from their victims, we 
inally succeeded by throwing buckets of water upon them, 
tnd cutting the traces of the harness. 
