EDITORIAL. 
345 
The worthy Secretary, Dr. Paquin, will of course remember us 
in making up his record. 
Extensive Outbreak of Glanders in Massachusetts. —An 
outbreak of this disease amongst the horses in Cambridge, Mass., 
is reported. A large horse establishment has had some 169 ani¬ 
mals quarantined by the Cattle Commissioners, and the officers of 
the road are now lighting against this action, which was taken, 
we understand, at the suggestion of Dr. F. Winchester and Dr. 
Stockbridge, both members of the commission. Drs. Lyman, 
Harrison and Bryden have been called in, in the interest of the 
horse owners, to dispute the diagnosis of Dr. Winchester, and a 
difference of opinion has of course been the result; Dr. Bryden 
and his colleagues, if not altogether denying the existence of the 
disease, at least questioning the extent of its prevalence, and argu¬ 
ing against the propriety of withdrawing so large a number of 
horses from their work and consigning them to threatened and 
possible slaughter. The question is, of course, one of import¬ 
ance. 
A suggestion has been made of obtaining expert opinions 
from veterinarians of New York and Philadelphia, in order to 
solve the matter satisfactorily. 
It seems to us that much more is made of the whole subject 
than it deserves. While glanders is sometimes very difficult to 
diagnosticate in a positive manner, the fact that the disease exists 
in even the small number admitted by the dissenting veterinarians 
ought to be sufficient to justify the most positive and severe sani¬ 
tary precautions, without reference to the amount of inconve¬ 
nience it might devolve upon the owners of the road. 
Prof. Law in Maryland. —Prof. Law, who has so handsome 
ly succeeded in stamping out plure-pneumonia in Cook Co., Ill., 
has been requested by the Department of Agriculture to transfer 
liis operations to a new held, no less infected with the disease. 
He is now engaged in Maryland where we soon will hear of the 
ffood results of his energetic work. 
