DIAGNOSIS OF GLANDERS WITH OLEUM TEREBENTHINCE. 545 
and while they do not show intact red corpsucles, they are full of 
bacterias which are surrounded by a peculiar zone. The proto¬ 
plasm of the epithelial cells of the tubes is yellowish, and often 
filled with pigment. The nuclei are but little colored, and often 
have disappeared. The tubes contain granular masses, highly col¬ 
ored. Bacterias are abundant in the small arteries and capillar¬ 
ies of all the other organs, and in the muscles. 
A healthy ox inoculated with a small quantity of the blood of 
a sick animal is not affected by it. Feeding an ox with the pro¬ 
ducts of the disease gives rise only to a temporary indisposition, 
with little fever. Inoculation with the blood, the fluid of the 
oedematous swelling, the urine, or the cultures of the microbe, to 
ewes, pigs, cobayas, chickens and pigeons is without effect, while 
rats and mice are more susceptible to it. The rabbit, however, 
is still more susceptible to it, and is made sick by the same inocu¬ 
lation, a high febrile condition supervening which often proves 
fatal. The post mortem reveals hypersemic oedema and eccliy- 
mosis of the peritoneum and of the walls of the intestines, with 
diarrhoea and fibrinous pericarditis and pleuritis. Bacterias are 
found in the small vessels, especially those of the liver. In the 
exudates and the oedemas they are found enclosed in globules re¬ 
sembling altered blood corpuscles. 
These bacterias are undoubtedly the pathogenic agents of the 
disease in cattle, though so far their inoculation has failed to prove 
it .—{Journal des Soc. Scienti.) 
DIAGNOSIS OF GLANDERS WITH OLEUM TEREBENTHINCE. 
By Dk. J. Seeling, (Berlin). 
Professors Vogel* and Anackerf have called the attention of 
♦Repertorium, 1888, s, 59. 
fThierarz, (1887). 
veterinarians to the use of ol. terebinth, by subcutaneous injec¬ 
tion, as one of the means of diagnosis in cases of suspected glan¬ 
ders. The theory propounded is that the article possesses the 
property of converting a case of latent or chronic glanders into a 
well-defined acute case of the same disease. My object in relat¬ 
ing the following case is to encourage veterinarians in the use of 
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