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even attempted with fowl. Cattle possess a natural immunity 
from glanders infection. Gerlach repeatedly inoculated two 
calves and a one-year old steer with the nasal secretion from a 
glandered horse, hut with no effect. Hertwig reports five experi¬ 
ments with similar results. In 1843, Wirth experimented with 
a buck goat, but as secondary inoculations were neglected, the 
case requires the necessary confirmation. 
In 1861, Ercolani records the case of a goat kept in a stable 
in which five horses had become glandered in the course of fifteen 
months. The lesions were in the udder, a viscid nasal secretion, 
abscess on the swollen intermaxillary gland, and small noduli in 
the lungs. 
In 1875, Karsten Horne reported a case similar to the above. 
Hertwig reports the death of one out of three goats on the 
18tli day after inoculation with glanders material. The autopsies 
confirmed the clinical phenomena. 
Bollinger reports positive results of the same nature. 
Trasbot also mentions a case of the natural infection of a goat 
in a stable in which there were several glandered horses. 
Judge Mason, of Lincoln, Nebraska, recently brought a very 
doubtful case to the happy conclusion of saving both parties in a 
horse sale case from an expensive lawsuit, by inoculating two 
sheep and two goats from the visible ulcerations in the nasal cav¬ 
ity of a glandered horse. Before the case was called, the four in¬ 
oculated animals died, with unmistakable symptoms of glanders. 
I may state that the case did not come on, as the defendant settled. 
Sheep are not so sensitive to infection as goats. Yiborg re¬ 
ports his efforts in this direction as unsuccessful. Benault and 
Bouley were more successful, and produced glanders in two sheep 
inoculated by them. Gerlach produced glanders in a sheep fifteen 
days after inoculation. 
Swine seem to possess a natural immunity from glanders, so 
far as can be determined from existing evidence. Numerous ex¬ 
periments have been recorded with animals belonging to the 
orders carnivorse and rodentiae, but the results were contradictory 
and unsatisfactory. 
Dr. Loefiler experimented with pure cultivations of the bacilli. 
