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\V. L. WILLIAMS. 
In a special report by Dr. Winchester, it seems that 192 
animals out of 1700 were quarantined as diseased or suspicious, 
•out of which but four animals were killed, although Dr. Liautard 
had positively pronounced 31 glandered and 28 suspicious. Of 
the 192 animals quarantined, 20 were released by Dr. Winches¬ 
ter’s protest, although this latter number included nearly all 
those positively condemned by Drs. Liautard and Huidekoper. 
It seems that acute, well defined cases, were almost unknown in 
this outbreak, and that the quarantining of the affected and sus¬ 
pected animals by Dr. Winchester, served evidently as Dr. Hui¬ 
dekoper notes in his report of inspection, to ameliorate the 
symptoms under the beneficent influence of rest, good food and 
improved hygenic conditions. There was a strong tendency, 
it seems, in these cases to spontaneous recovery, and it is well 
to note here that close quarantine, i. e ., the withdrawal from 
labor, with good food and care, always tends in all localities, to 
remission in symptoms and a tendency to recover, either appar¬ 
ent or real, almost always the former, thus tending to bring the 
official veterinarian into disrepute, and by bringing about many 
apparent recoveries tends strongly to domicile and perpetuate 
the malady. 
In New York and Brooklyn, according to Dr. Berns, Brook¬ 
lyn, the disease is comparatively rare at present, doubtless due 
more to the influence of well enforced sanitary police regula¬ 
tions than to climatic influences, the latter being quite favorable 
to the spread of glanders in a virulent form. 
In Pennsylvania, Dr. Pearson, Philadelphia, reports the dis¬ 
ease on the increase, but leaves us in the dark as to type 
assumed; it is reported comparatively rare in Ohio by Dr. Howe, 
Dayton, and its prevalence at a ration of 13 in 100,000 horses in 
Illinois has already been noted. 
Climatically, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and 
Illinois, may be grouped together as comparatively humid states, 
with sudden and great thermal variations, but generally, neither 
excessively hot nor cold. The climate does not call for very 
warm stables, rendering the question of overcrowding and bad 
