GLANDERS. 
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ture, all less than 2° above normal, were found upon examination 
after death to be healthy. 
Laquerriere* with Latour, records a test with mallein in an in¬ 
fected transfer stable in Paris containing 141 animals, but ten of 
which showed signs of glanders prior to the test. These ten, 
with eighty-seven others which had shown no symptoms of 
glanders reacted to the mallein to the extent of 2° or over, and 
upon post-mortem examination the entire ninety-seven were 
found glandered. Twenty-five of the remaining animals show¬ 
ing a fever of i° to 1.5 0 after the mallein injection, were killed 
and found glandered, while five others, showing no reaction, 
were found healthy upon post-mortem examination, and the re¬ 
maining twelve, showing no reaction, remained sound. Nocard t 
of the National Veterinary School at Alfort, France, after try¬ 
ing in vain by rigid inspection and killing of all diseased animals 
found, to control glanders in a transport stable in Paris contain¬ 
ing some 6,000 horses, finally resorted to the use of mallein, and 
was surprised to find that several hundred animals showed fever 
after the mallein injection, scarcely any of which showed any 
signs of the disease before. All these were killed, and post¬ 
mortem examinations showed them all to be glandered, many 
of them only to the extent of a very few small tubercles or 
nodules in the lungs, the nature of which was clearly proved by 
making pure cultures of the glanders germs from these nodules. 
I. NeimanJ speaking of the use of mallein in Russia gives a 
long list of investigators, all of whom fully agree to the great 
merit of this substance as a diagnostic agent in glanders. Dr. 
F. Boschetti§ records a considerable number of experiments 
with mallein in Italy, and pronounces it a thoroughly reliable 
test for glanders in all stages. Although less numerous, tests 
with mallein in the United States have proven quite as satis¬ 
factory as in Europe. De Schweimitzll and Kilbourne of the 
* Ibid, March, 1892. 
f Bulletin de la Societie Centrale de Medicine Veterinaire, 1892, p. 978. 
t Revue Veterinaire, November, 1893. 
§ CEsterreichische Monatschrift fur Thierhdilkunde, August, 1893. 
|| Proceedings United States Veterinay Medical Association, 181-93. 
