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“ If you dry glanders material at the ordinary temperature of 
the air, either in summer or winter, or in an artificial temperature 
conforming to that of summer, it soon loses its infecting activity. 
Experiments with such material in over one hundred cases had no 
effect. Even subcutaneous inoculations gave negative results. 51 
The material used by Viborg was taken from an unquestion¬ 
able case of glanders in a horse, and had been treated for eight, 
nine, and fourteen days. 
Gohier seems to have been more successful, for he succeeded 
in infecting a mule from a harness that a month previously was 
worn by a glandered horse. 
Renault soiled eight halters and blankets with the virulent 
products of an acute case of glanders, and then exposed them to 
the action of the atmosphere for twenty days, after which they 
were placed on the same number of healthy horses. Results 
negative. 
Renault and Bouley inoculated a horse with the nasal secre¬ 
tion—that had been dried six weeks—of a glandered horse ; re¬ 
sult the same. 
Gerlach spread the same secretion on a plate of glass and al¬ 
lowed it to dry; how long not mentioned. Result negative. 
Galtier came to the conclusion that glanders material lost its 
infectiousness after being well dried for fifteen days. 
It is thus seen that all three authors agree in asserting that 
desiccation destroys the inficiens in glanders material. 
{To be continued.) 
THE ETIOLOGICAL MOMENT IN AMERICAN SWINE PLAGUE, 
REPORT OF THE WORK DONE IN THE LABORATORY OF THE 
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOR THE EXPERIMEN¬ 
TAL STUDY OF CONTAGIOUS AND INFECTIOUS ANIMAL 
DISEASES. 
(Continued from page 137.) 
Before considering Hueppe’s hypothesis further, I desire to 
call attention to the organism described by Prof. Schuetz (of the 
Royal Veterinary School of Berlin) in the “Arbeiten, a. d. Kaiser- 
