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dition, i.e., that I would report to you, for publication, some 
of my experiences of an exceptional character, as to its value 
as a diagnostic agent in glanders. While there may be noth¬ 
ing very exceptional in the following case, it strongly confirms 
how reliable a factor it is in ferreting out the existence or 
non-existence of this disease in the equine race. 
In a stable of eighty horses (of which I have professional 
charge), one morning early in last October my attention was 
called to a black six-year-old gelding in prime condition, with 
slight discharge from near nostril. Upon examination I found 
the same to be a confirmed case of glanders ; the animal was 
immediately isolated and on the following morning destroyed. 
On the morning of the following Sunday I made 4 thorough ex¬ 
amination of all the horses ; found one black mare with a very 
slight discharge from near nostril and a perceptible enlarge¬ 
ment of the sub-maxillary gland of the same side (neither 
indurated nor adherent.) The driver of the animal said that 
she had a periodic cough; in every other respect she seemed 
normal and in prime condition. On taking her temperature, 
I found the thermometer to register 103°. The animal was 
not known to have come in direct contact with the one al¬ 
ready destroyed, as above referred to. This mare was at 
once isolated and a smart cathartic administered, which oper. 
ated freely. On the third day her temperature was down to 
ioi°, and the tumefaction of the gland almost entirely disap¬ 
peared ; but there was a perceptible foetid odor from the near 
nostril and slight discharge. On Oct. 29th I subjected her 
to the mallein test, with the following results: 
Inoculated the same at 4 P.M., the temperature then being 
101 1 ; at 7 p.m., 1025; at 8 P.M., 103 and at 10 p.m., 1035. On 
the morning of the 30th, at six o’clock, 105*; at 8 A.M., 104^; 
at 12 M., 104; at 4 P.M., 103U at 8:30 p.m., 105 and at 10:15 
P.M., 105. On the morning of the 31st, at six o’clock, 104; at 
12 M., 104; at 4 p.m., 103 ; at 8 P.M., 103J and at 10 P.M., 103. 
November 1st, at 6 A.M., 103 ; at 4 P.M., 103 ; at 6 P.M., 103 and 
at 10 P.M., 103. November 2d, at 6 A.M., 101 and at 10 A. M., 
101. November 3d, at 7 a.m., ioi and at 3 p.m., ioi. 
For the first two days the animal went slightly off her 
