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VETERINARIUS. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
GLANDERS. 
By Veterinarius. 
A Contribution for the Prize offered by the U. S. Veterinary Medical Association 
for Papers published in the American Veterinary Review. 
LITERATURE.— Billings —Relation of Animal Diseases to Public Health. 
Williams —Veterinary Medicine. Fleming —Veterinary Sanitary Science. Hirsgh 
—Geographische Pathologie. Arbeiten, a. d. Kaiserlichen Gesundheits Amte 
1886. Journal Comparative Medicine. Dieokerhoff —Pathologie u. Therapie fur 
Thierarzte. Zeitschrift fur Thier-medicin. Archiv. fur Thierheilkunde. 
In a recent commnnicaticn upon this subject I noticed that 
it was simply a repetition of former works and did not mention 
any of the latest investigations regarding the etiology of this dis¬ 
ease. Within the last two years rapid strides have been made in 
tracing the etiology of glanders, and the diagnosis of chronic cases 
made almost a certainty, provided the veterinarian can make use 
of the latest scientific appliances. As none of those methods have 
as yet appeared in any of the veterinary journals * in this country, 
and as glanders is a source of great loss to horsemen in this coun¬ 
try, I have written this communication in order that the latest and 
most expert means of diagnosis may be brought before the veter¬ 
inary profession. 
HISTORY OF GLANDERS. 
That this dreaded equine disease was ’well known to the 
ancients cannot be disputed, as a great many writers have men¬ 
tioned it; Apsyrtus, who lived in the 4th century, A.D.,being un¬ 
doubtedly the first. He described farcy as elephantiasis. Vege- 
tius followed in the same direction in the next century. In the 
13th century Rufus gave a fair description of the symptoms of 
the disease; he declared for its contagiousness, but considered it 
* A most ridiculous attempt at noticing Loefler’s work upon the etiology was 
made by one O’Leary in the January issue of the Journal of Comparative Medi¬ 
cine. One must really look upon it as an “ Irish bull,” and doubt if the writer of 
the notice ever read the original communication of Loefler’s, as he certainly gives 
no evidence of having done so. He probably heard of it. 
