GLANDERS. 
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showed a reaction to mallein of not less than 2.9 0 C (5-22 F). 
No. 5 showing a reaction of 2.1 0 was apparently well and so con¬ 
tinues, which may be accounted for by an accident in injecting 
the mallein, the day being so cold that the mallein froze in the 
syringe, rendering the dose uncertain and no opportunity has oc¬ 
curred to make a second test. No. 5 has at no time shown signs 
of glanders, although the reaction clearly denotes that she is af¬ 
fected. She is the mate to, and was driven with No. 5, until the 
latter became seriously affected with glanders, when they were 
separated and both are still under observation. Nos. 4 and 8 
remain sound. 
The foregoing observations upon the employment of mallein 
form but a part of the great number of records of its use and 
serve only to illustrate its great value in diagnosing glanders. 
Its use under proper precautions is almost wholly without danger 
of error and places in the hands of veterinarians for the first time 
a reliable agent for determining promptly the existence or ab¬ 
sence of glanders in suspected or exposed animals. The prepar¬ 
ation and use of mallein is constantly becoming better understood, 
so that the errors made in its use at first, are now mostly under¬ 
stood and avoidable. The mallein test possesses a double value 
discovering unsuspected cases of glanders and freeing from sus¬ 
picion animals affected with other diseases similar in appearance 
to glanders.” 
The subject of glanders in other animals and in man occupy 
also the attention of Dr. Williams and then he initiates us to the 
prevalence of the disease among Montana horses and reviews the 
treatment; a question of no little importance at present: 
TREATMENT. 
“ In most countries the treatment of glanders is prohibited by 
law, and instead, the control and eradication of the disease is 
sought by compulsory quarantine, slaughter and disinfection. 
Its treatment has, until very recently, rarely been undertaken by 
qualified veterinarians, except as an experiment, while quacks 
and owners, ignorant of the nature of the disease, have been pro- 
