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enclosing membrane, showing that they occupy the body of a cell 
in which the nucleus has perished. In old noduli the alveolar 
structure cannot be defined ; the center is occupied by a mass of 
detritus, parts of which stain a dense blue color. The detritus is 
not so dense towards the peripheries, and a few bacilli may now 
and then be seen, and sometimes a group within a cell. The 
bacilli cannot be seen in cross sections of blood vessels, or in cov¬ 
ering-glass specimens of blood from the heart. Only in most 
acute cases have the bacilli been demonstrated in the blood, al¬ 
though they are undoubtedly present in acute stages of the dis¬ 
ease, when noduli break through into the blood vessels. This is 
also the case in tuberculosis, as shown by Weigert and Koch. 
The more acute the course of glanders, the quicker the phenom¬ 
ena of generalization appears; the more probable will be the dis¬ 
covery of bacilli in the blood. This fact corresponds with the 
result of inoculation or transfusion experiments with the blood of 
glandered horses, which proved negative in the greater number of 
cases. 
{To be continued .) 
VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
FORENSIC MEDICINE. 
By D. P. Yonkerman, Cleveland, O. 
(Continued from page 34.) 
As to medical secrets: The highest legal authorities in Eng¬ 
land have decided that medical men enjoy no special privileges 
with regard to secrets of a professional nature. In other words, 
no practitioner can claim exemption from answering a question 
because the answer may or would involve a violation of secrecy 
or even implicate the character of his patient. 
But the courts of New York, with more respect for the honor 
and knowledge of the conditions under which the medical man 
becomes the possessor of secrets involving the character of whole 
families, have wisely passed the following law: 
u That no person duly authorized to practice physic or sur- 
