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taneous recovery takes place in a large number of cases of the 
disease—the possibility of which has been denied by most inves¬ 
tigators, but must, nevertheless, be looked upon as a rule, for 
otherwise half the horses would die from glanders in certain 
countries—suggests the question whether the glanderous in¬ 
fection in other animal species, and more particularly in man, 
does not present the same peculiarities as those I have just 
described.” Prof, Bonome * of the University of Padua, Italy, 
records the successful treatment of glanders in horse and man 
by the use of mallein. Prof. Le Clainche +of the veterinary school 
at Toulouse, France says: “ There is nothing fatal in glander 
infection, on the contrary, a large number of animals resist it 
and the lesions already developed cicatrize (heal). It is estab¬ 
lished that glanders may disappear in the absence of all treat¬ 
ment.” 
It should be noted that nearly all the above cited cures from 
glanders are reported from the most southerly portions of 
Europe, where the disease is of a very mild character, resem¬ 
bling in all essential particulars the type the malady usually as¬ 
sumes in Montana and other Rocky Mountain states, in which 
region several veterinarians have seen apparent recoveries from 
this affection, and where it not rarely happens that animals 
pronounced glandered by veterinarians, apparently recover and 
remain sound so far as can be seen, frequently leading the owner 
to believe that an error has been made and that the horse had 
in reality been affected with some other less serious disease. 
It is not uncommon to see in this state animals clearly af¬ 
fected with glanders which, according to the observation of the 
owner, have evidently been affected for five, six or more years, 
retaining at all times the general appearances of good health, 
part of the time free from any glanders symptoms and con¬ 
stantly able to perform ordinary work, showing in every way a 
strong tendency to recover. 
In one case now under observation, known as No. 6 in the 
* The Veterinarian, Vol. LXVII, p. 751. 
f Veterinary Journal, Vol. XXXIX, p. 2. 
