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contaminate others. One then can conclude that the glander¬ 
ous lesions detected by the first injections have definitely re¬ 
covered (healed). 
How do these horses recover ? Has malleine contributed to 
the recovery ? In what limits ? 
At the present hour, it seems difficult to answer these ques¬ 
tions in a satisfactory manner. It is possible, even probable, 
that malleine exerts a favorable action upon the regression and 
the definitive cicatrization of the glanderous lesions, when these 
are recent and of limited extent, but it is impossible to affirm it. 
The severe individual isolation, the long and continued 
deration, good food were sufficient in days gone by to arrest in 
a few months the most dangerous epizootics, and then malleine 
could not be given the credit of a curative action. Neither do 
I believe that we are prepared to decide as to the part that 
malleine may have taken in the numerous cases of recovery of 
pulmonary glanders that we have to record to-day. 
6 . From all that precedes, it results that the systematic use 
of malleine constitutes the surest, the quickest and less ex¬ 
pensive means to relieve the most seriously affected centers of 
glanders. 
VETERINARY EDUCATION IN RELATION TO THE PRACTICE OF 
VETERINARY MEDICINE IN NEW YORK STATE. 
By Prof. Liautard, M.D.V.M. 
A paper presented to the New York State Veterinary Medical Society. 
Mr. President and Gentlemen: —To be called at this 
moment before such an honorable gathering of members of the 
veterinary profession is an honor which, to me, comes to crown 
a period of thirty years engaged in behalf of the profession; 
and when I am asked to address you on the subject of veterinary 
education in relation to the practice of veterinary medicine, you 
can appreciate how I realize the compliment and yet how re¬ 
gretful I must be of what I consider my inability to do justice 
