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table on page 18, apparent recovery from acute glanders has 
taken place in a few months, without treatment, while in No. 7 
of same table, glanders is clearly present according to the 
mallein test, the animal showing otherwise every evidence of 
robust health. It consequently seems probable that spontaneous 
recoveries from glanders take place among Montana horses, es¬ 
pecially among those living wholly free and practically wild 
upon the high ranges. 
Although most modern investigators admit the curability of 
some cases of glanders, these recoveries are confessedly few 
and the treatment of the malady, whether by medicines or mal¬ 
lein, is yet purely experimental, unworthy of confidence from a 
practical standpoint, yet pointing hopefully toward reliable treat¬ 
ment in the near future. Apparent recoveries from glanders are, 
unfortunately, too often apparent only, and serve to continue the 
spread of the disease. 
A horse apparently recovered from glanders is worthy of 
being regarded with very great suspicion, and his apparent 
recovery should not be accepted as real until satisfactorily 
tested with mallein, and the treatment of glandered animal, 
except experimentally, by competent investigators, should be 
prohibited until further knowledge is obtained upon the subject.” 
The bulletin closes with a few remarks on the question of 
immunity and the eradication of the disease from Montana. 
The entire pamphlet is a valuable addition, even to veterin¬ 
ary libraries, and is called to be of great value, presenting as it 
does before the public the general subject of glanders, which so 
many believe they know all about and yet are ignorant of the 
first fact connected with it.—[A. L.] 
CANINE DISTEMPER—ITS CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, SEQUELS AND 
TREATMENT. 
W. E. Wadams, V.S. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen :—The subject I have 
chosen for my essay, is one, I think, much overlooked by the 
