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his practice. Prof. E. Nocard * * * § of the National Veterinary 
School at Alford, France, gives the opinion that the use of 
mallein as heretofore described for diagnostic purposes not un- 
frequently works a cure. Dr. E. Semmer, t chief of the epi¬ 
zootic department of the Royal Institute for Experimental 
Medicine at St. Petersburg, states that Decroix and Bouzom in 
Algiers cured numerous cases of farcy, while Brusaco,, Tollovio 
and Saltella of Turin, Italy, report having cured twenty-five to 
fifty per cent of cases of glanders and Neuman in the Caucasus, 
Hauber, Bollinger of Munich and others report successful cures. 
With Itzkovitch, Prof. Semmer observed at Dorpat, Russia, 
the spontaneous recovery of a severe case of glanders which had 
been induced by experimental inoculation. 
Mercury and iodine have both been used in Russia with ap¬ 
parent success in glanders of horses and man, but Prof. Semmer 
regards mallein as giving the greatest promise of a fairly suc¬ 
cessful curative agent 1 using it in a similiar manner to that 
already described for diagnostic purposes, and in this connection 
states that with this substance, Pilavios, principal veterinary 
surgeon to the Greek army, cured eight glandered horses, and 
Helman of Dorpat, Russia, three glandered horses and one ass, 
their cure having been tested, the animals being thereafter proof 
against inoculations with virulent glanders matter and showing 
no reaction to mallein. With blood serum from these horses 
Prof. Semmer rendered cats and guinea pigs proof against glan¬ 
ders. Leblanc J asserts that certain forms of glanders are 
curable by the use of mallein. 
V. Babes § Professor of Experimental Pathology, Bucharest, 
Roumania, after noting a long series of cases of unrecognizable 
or masked glanders in horses and their recovery, spontaneously 
or with the use of mallein, says: “The unsuspected frequency 
of masked and latent glanders in horses, and the fact that spon- 
* Deutsche Zeitschrift fur Theidmedicin, Sept., 1894. 
-j- Ibid “ Neber gutartige heilbaren Formen des Rotes.’ Dec. 1893- 
£ Esterreichische Monatschrift fur Thiereeilkunde, July, 1893. 
§ Veterinary Journal, Vol. XXPIX, p. 266. 
