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W. L. WILLIAMS. 
Dr. A H. Baker, Chicago, Ill., upon a trip to South Dakota 
in 1885, found glanders very prevalent, and was specially struck 
with the very mild type it asssumed, horses doing their accus¬ 
tomed labor for seven or eight years without apparent detriment, 
and showing no constitutional defects whatever, yet by local 
lesions showing plainly and unmistakably that they were affected 
with glanders. 
Dr. Hinebauch, Fargo, N. D., reports the disease as assum¬ 
ing the same form in his state, and to this mild, largely latent 
type, rendering detection difficult, he attributes its wide preva¬ 
lence. Dr. S. Stewart, Kansas City, Kas., observing glanders 
along the Missouri river, Dakota to Arkansas, finds it in a very 
mild form and has noted several apparent recoveries, either 
spontaneous or under indifferent treatment. Dr. Waugh, Alle¬ 
ghany, Pa., observing glanders in California, Arizona, New 
Mexico, western Texas, and along the northern border of old 
Mexico, find it prevalent among horses, mules and asses, being 
most rare in the latter and assuming a very mild type. The 
acute form is rarely seen. This mildness Dr. Waugh attributes to 
the hot, dry climate, alkaline water aud grasses richly impreg¬ 
nated with mineral substances. Treatment appeared favorable, 
vet he failed to produce recovery in cases tried in New Mexico. 
In the San Joaquin Valley of California, Glanders has 
recently prevailed very largely and led Dr. Klench (AMERICAN 
Veterinary Review, Vol. XIII, p. 214) to contribute a very 
remarkable article upon the disease under the name of general 
lymphangitis, giving as faithful a description of glanders as can 
well be found in veterinary literature, in history, symptoms, 
termination, etc., yet holding, on the most palpably erroneous 
grounds, that the disease was not glanders. In this locality Dr. 
Waugh has noted spontaneous recovery in horses. 
In Montana most horses are ranged on land 3,000 to 7,000 
feet above sea level, have usually abundant food and a dry cli¬ 
mate. The past year has been exceptionally wet, and as an im¬ 
mediate result, glanders has developed more commonly than 
before, and in a more severe form. Of forty cases inspected. 
