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feed and the seat of inoculation was tumefied and painful to 
the touch ; so much so that she winced when putting forward 
the hand to manipulate the same. 
Having full faith in mallein, the above was conclusive evi¬ 
dence to me that the animal was affected with glanders, and 
I so reported to the owner, but the mare being a favorite, 
and, to a casual observer, in a perfectly healthy condition, he 
was reluctant to consent to having her killed; the animal 
looking well, feeding well, but the temperature ranging from 
ioi to IOI*. 
On November 9th she was again inoculated, for the second 
time, with precisely the same results, which I reported to the 
owner, still he would not consent to her destruction and made 
the remark that to inject the same stuff below the skin of 
any animal, would bring about the same results. I there and 
then volunteered to put it to the test. 
On the morning of the 14th the mare was for the third 
time inoculated. At the same time I inoculated one of my 
own horses. The reaction in the black mare, within 24 hours, 
registered up to 104, while in the case of my own horse, there 
was no deviation from the normal temperature, and although, 
at the seat of inoculation, there was slight tumefaction there 
was no heat, or pain on pressure. I submitted these facts to 
the owner, and requested him to draw his own conclusions. 
He at once expressed his satisfaction and consented to have 
the animal destroyed. 
The post mortem, which was made at the American Vet¬ 
erinary College in the presence of the entire class, revealed 
the characteristic lesions of this disease, although in a very 
minute form, both in the air passages and the lymphatics of 
the pulmonary pleura, the lungs presenting numerous small 
glanderous deposits, the bronchial lymphatic glands being 
enlarged and infiltrated, while the septum nasi showed several 
small, hard tumois of glanderous nature. 
Query: How many horses in New York and Brooklyn 
would defy the mallein test ? Am I safe in saying that from 
10 to 15 per cent, of the horses in both cities would react to 
this test. 
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