IO 
W. L. WILLIAMS. 
the disease tends to develop in the severe form as was seen in 
Montana during the fall, winter and spring of 1893-94, but upon 
the advent of summer with the usual dry weather the acute form 
disappeared and the disease is rarely reported, not because it is 
less rare but because it assumes largely a type which is unrecog¬ 
nizable. 
When the Pacific coast is reached glanders re-appears in the 
humid localities near the sea level in its severe form, and runs 
the same course, with like symptoms as seen in the Atlantic states. 
Since the disease is due to the transmission of glanders germs 
usually contained in the discharge from the nostrils or from far¬ 
cy buds of affected animals to those which are healthy, and since 
as a rule the glanders germs are most abundant and active in 
severe cases, it naturally follows that the contagiousness of the 
disease is in proportion to the severity it assumes in the animal 
to which the healty one is exposed, hence the disease is most 
contagious under those conditions which make it most severe in 
the affected animals and least contagious where it assumes a very 
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mild type. 
Thus we find the disease highly contagious under one set of 
conditions, and very feebly contagious under others.” 
Then the stabling, labor, food, breed and age are considered. 
The special and the differential diagnosis is there presented 
and nasal gleet, strangles, pink-eye, acute nasal catarrh, infec¬ 
tious or epizootic catarrhal fever, chronic nasal catarrh, disease 
of the fasial sinuses, diseased teeth, tumors in nostrils, received 
proper attention. 
In connection with the diagnosis by other than physical signs, 
we extract as of great interest to American Veterinarians the 
following relating to the use of Malleine and inoculation.” 
DIAGNOSIS BY OTHER THAN PHYSICAL SIGNS. 
“It being so often utterly impossible to detect the existence 
of glanders in an animal by any of the signs heretofore described 
many other means have been devised and tried in order to deter¬ 
mine if suspected animals be affected with glanders or not. 
