INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE, ETC., ON THE DISTRIBUTION & CHARACTER OF DISEASE. 
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To-day we find glanders most prevalent in those sections of 
our country where it runs the mildest course, shows the greatest 
tendency to recover, and is the least contagious. In such local¬ 
ities at present we find the most and the cheapest horses. The 
mild cases are difficult of diagnosis, and stock owners cannot be 
convinced of the character of the disease. 
In the Rocky Mountain region the vast herds of wild horses 
cannot be satisfactorily inspected, and the mallein test in these 
is out of the question, so that the mildly diseased animals can¬ 
not be detected. Owners have been taught to believe that 
glanders is uniformly and rapidly fatal ; hence, take no alarm 
from a feeble nasal discharge, which disappears at some seasons 
of the year, the animal continuing in good general health and 
performing good labor year after year. Many owners are, in 
their own mind, competent judges of the matter, and relate how 
much they saw of it during the war, but are not aware that they 
saw only acute cases and failed to note the mild ones which, 
taken from the army and sold, scattered the seed, the fruit of 
which we are still harvesting. 
\ eterinarians, too, with little experience are slow to call 
glanders, in many of these localities, by its right name ; but, 
like Dr. Klench in the paper already noted, worry themselves to 
find some other name by which to hide their error as to its real 
nature. Our British and American colleges give too vivid a 
description of the virulence of glanders, and the average grad¬ 
uate locating in the dry regions of the west is illy prepared to 
condemn a horse for glanders that has been barely visibly 
affected for seven or eight years, or one that has been ailing for 
a few months and is rapidly recovering. 
To control glanders, we need to appeal to intelligence where 
it exists, and in its absence to force. When an intelligent horse¬ 
man has been working a fat, robust, glandered horse for seven 
or eight years, it does not appeal to his intelligence to say to 
him that his animal is affected with an unavoidably and rapidly 
fatal disease. 
(To be Continued.) 
