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A. LIAUTARD 
Of these vaccinated, two died after a lapse of four years and 
four months of splenic apoplexia, fortunately in a place where 
no cattle have been kept since. 
I also vaccinated the herd of Mrs. Wiley, consisting of 
thirty-three head, and Mr. J. Rose’s herd of sixteen head. 
There was no table of temperatures kept of these two herds. 
Since 1887, there has been but two cases of splenic apo¬ 
plexia (the two of the Hudson River State Hospital) in the 
whole district. 
Every year for over thirty years this disease has claimed its 
victims. 
This is certainly very gratifying for the use of prophylactic 
treatment of this disease. 
SOME EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES ON THE USE OF 
MALLEINE. 
By Prof. A. Liautard, M.D., V.M. 
A paper presented to the Congress of Hygiene at Buda-Pest. 
Mr. PRESIDENT. —When several weeks ago, you did me 
the honor to ask me to present before the Congress in Buda- 
Pest some remarks upon the use of malleine in the diagnosis 
of glanders, I understood that your principal desire was to ob¬ 
tain documents upon the uses and results obtained by those 
among us, American practitioners, who, acquainted with all that 
has been written and said, proved and discussed in Europe, 
would have by special observations obtained facts which might 
throw some light on the numerous questions yet in doubt. 
It is with that object in view that I send you these few 
pages, which, though concise, may, I hope, find near you as 
well much indulgence as I desire them to be interesting. 
The great discovery of our Russian colleagues was knowm 
in America in 1892 by a few among us, and at the annual anni¬ 
versary meeting of the United States Veterinary Medical Asso- 
