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fuse in their efforts to cure the disease, it, in the meantime 
spreading to other animals. All kinds of drugs and nostrums 
have been used by these persons with the only result, if any, of 
causing a temporary improvement of symptoms rendering it all 
the more dangerous because unrecognizable. The curability of 
glanders has long been a vexed question, a few veterinarians 
holding that many cases were curable, while the majority held 
that all cases were positively incurable and surely fatal and be¬ 
tween these two extremes every grade of opinion was held. 
These views have been modified largely by the character which 
the disease assumed in the particular country in which the veter¬ 
inarian giving the opinion was located, so that those seeing the 
disease in countries like southern Russia, Roumania and Italy, 
where it is very mild, have been the most confident of its curabil¬ 
ity. With our increased knowledge of glanders and other 
infectious diseases the idea of a positively fatal contagious disease 
has well nigh disappeared and it is now quite generally admitted 
by leading veterinarians that some cases of glanders recover 
either spontaneously or under treatment. 
Dr. Fleming, * * * § late chief veterinarian to the British army, 
held several years ago that possibly Some rare cases of farcy 
of a mild type and in the first stage might be cured, and lately 
t in the light of our present knowledge of the disease admits 
the possibility of recovery in a much greater number of cases. 
Prof. Williams J principal of the New Veterinary College, 
Edinburgh, admits the possibility of recovery in mild cases of 
farcy. Prof- F. Friedburger of the Munich Veterinary school 
and Prof. E. Frohner§ of the Royal Veterinary College at Ber¬ 
lin assert that rarely is glanders curable, an opinion shared by 
Prof. Dieckerhoffil also of the Royal Veterinary School at Berlin, 
who relates an instance of recovery from glanders occurring in 
* Veterinary Sanitary Science and Policn, Vol. I., P. 505. 
■f* Veterinary Journal, Oct., 1894. 
J William’s Principles and Practices of Veterinary Medicine. 
§ Friedberger und Frohner. Lehrbuch der Speciellen Pathologie and Therapie. 
|| DieckerhofFs Lehrbuch der Speciellen Pathologie and Therapie. Vol. I. P. 154. 
