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VETERINARIUS. 
The French investigators did obtain infecting cultures from glan¬ 
ders material, but were unsuccessful in obtaining pure cultures of 
the same. 
Israel published the results of similar investigations. He suc¬ 
ceeded in three cases in cultivating bacilli from the pulmonary 
noduli of glandered horses, and describes said bacilli as somewhat 
thicker than tubercle bacilli, but easily distinguished from the 
latter by the great dimensions of the spores. Israel induced a dis¬ 
ease in rabbits with his cultivated bacteria, which Dieckerhoff de¬ 
clared to be glanders. It is singular that lie succeeded in coloring 
his rods in tissues used in the ordinary manner. 
Wassiliff demonstrated the presence of the bacilli described by 
Dr. Loeffler in the blood and postules of a man affected with 
glanders, by the methyl-blue method. 
The most confirmatory evidence was given by Kitt, of Munich, 
and Weichselbaum. 
One of the first and most essential tasks in the study of any 
pathogenic organism consists in discovering what species of ani¬ 
mal is most open to infection, in either a natural or artificial man¬ 
ner ; that is, possesses a sort of biological affinity for such micro¬ 
organisms. It is necessary to find such animals among the 
smaller and cheaper varieties, which thus act as a sort of reagent 
for such organisms as was shown in the study of anthrax. The 
horse and ass are the animals which are open to infection with 
glanders, especially the latter. The high cost of these animals, 
and the difficulty of providing suitable locations for the study of 
the disease in them, the removal and care of such large cadavers, 
renders it necessary in experimentation only to resort to such ani¬ 
mals in the most important and test cases, while for ordinary 
studies to have recourse to mice, rats, rabbits and guinea-pigs. 
TRANSMISSION OF GLANDERS TO OTHER ANIMALS WITH PURE CULTI¬ 
VATIONS OF THE BACILLI. 
The number of animals of different species in which either 
natural or artificial glanders has been observed, induced or at¬ 
tempted, is by no means small; it includes the solipeds, rumi¬ 
nants, omnivora, carnivora and rodents, and experiments were 
