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VETERINARIUS. 
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF GLANDERS. 
Glanders is fast becoming a cosmopolitan disease. If the 
march of an empire makes its way westward this disease accom¬ 
panies it. In civilized countries the extension of all contagious 
diseases bears direct relation to the intelligence of the Government 
in taking means to suppress them, and the frequency of the ease 
of travel and intercourse. Glanders has followed the same 
course. 
At one time it was said not to prevail in hot climates; but it 
has acquired an alarming extension and breaks out at the different 
cavalry stations of the British forces in India, and other tropical 
countries. But where there is little or no intercourse with other 
parts, as in Iceland and other Northern countries, there is little or 
no glanders. This led to the assumption that it did not thrive in 
such a climate, and that it steadily increased as we proceeded 
from the North to the South, until we arrived at tropical limits. ' 
This is all wrong; the occasions to infection, with lack of sani¬ 
tary police, being given, glanders will appear as frequently in one 
climate as another. 
In this country glanders has become much more prevalent 
since the war. After the Franco-Prussian war glanders increased 
in Prussia (reported cases) from 959 cases for 1869-’70, and 996 
for 1870-71, to 1,729 for 1871-N2 and 2,058 for 1873-’74. 
Glanders is also known in North China, and is of frequent oc¬ 
currence at the Cape of Good Hope, and it is also prevalent in 
Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. 
THE NATURE OF GLANDERS. 
In speaking of any disease it is very necessary that both pro¬ 
fessionals and the public have an exact idea as to its true charac¬ 
ter. In this sense glanders is a strictly contagious disease ; it 
arises by contagion only, that is, by contact either with a previ¬ 
ously diseased animal, or with material from such an animal. A 
contagious disease is one which finds its origin within the organ¬ 
ism of a given animal species, and extends from such an infected 
animal to other animals of the same species, or to animals of other 
species which possess more or less susceptibility to infection. 
