REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON DISEASE. 
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.one with whom I conversed reported that he had some animals 
affected in the earlier part of the season, some of which re¬ 
covered, and others died. I experienced considerable diffi¬ 
culty in finding- any recently developed cases, although I was 
shown a number of horses on the streets that had been af¬ 
fected, and were still showing some evidence of sore and 
chapped lips. It appears that a few cases occurred early in 
the fall, but this outbreak did not become serious, or attract 
particular attention until after New Year. I traced up 67 
deaths of horses and mules within a radius of five miles of 
Carlyle, and the reports of several hundred that had been 
affected. In fact, nearly every farmer had some experience 
with the disease, many animals after having apparently re¬ 
covered from the first attack would have a recurrence. Some 
of them in this manner were affected three or four times. 
It was difficult to get a very exact history of the appear¬ 
ances, either ante or post-mortem, as the statements were so 
conflicting that I was compelled to sift out the most reliable 
statements and accept them. In the majority of cases the 
animals were affected locally. The first manifestation was a 
soreness about the lips and nostrils, the skin would become 
more or less excoriated, and become chapped, cracks and fis¬ 
sures forming without much swelling, in many cases interfer¬ 
ing with prehension. The mucous membranes of the nose, 
and the inside of the lips became tumefied to some extent, more 
especially those of the anterior nares. Hence, many of the 
cases were reported as being suspected glanders. Not un¬ 
commonly, there would be more or less hemorrhage from the 
nostrils, and a petechial discoloration of the membrane. In 
very few instances was there any tumefaction of the sub¬ 
maxillary lymphatics. A smaller percentage of cases mani¬ 
fested some difficulty in swallowing, and occasionally in 
chewing their food. Emaciation and debility gradually pro¬ 
gressed, but the appetite never became entirely suspended. 
Occasionally one manifested evidences of suffocation for 
twelve or twenty-four hours before death, either as a result 
of laryngeal or pneumonia congestion. Others lingered along 
for from seven days to four weeks before death occurred. A 
