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necessary to satisfy one that a horse is diseased with glanders; or 
“ that the chancre cannot exist without swollen glands,” are in¬ 
comprehensible and unexplainable opinions, to put it mildly. 
Statements of that nature, when made by those who by their offi¬ 
cial position are supposed to be au courant of modern and recent 
literature, and of the present advanced pathology, must undoubt¬ 
edly have had influence of great weight before persons more or 
less interested in the settlement of a question of the kind. But 
if those assertions are true, and if the opinions of the experts have 
resulted in unnecessary expense to the State of Massachusetts, 
what will be said of the results which were obtained by Dr. Win¬ 
chester, who, we are informed, called inoculation to his aid to 
prove the correctness of his diagnosis, with the result of triumph¬ 
antly confirming it ? 
We consider the whole transaction as one to be much regret¬ 
ted, as one, we seriously fear, the majority of the Commission 
may one day be sadly sorry for, and which, we are afraid, will 
serve as a severe lesson to those who are not well acquainted with 
the many forms that lesions of glanders are liable to assume. 
But with all that, the result is nothing more nor less than the one 
we have too often been accustomed to observe in similar cir¬ 
cumstances on this side of the Atlantic. The worst result, how¬ 
ever, is the spreading of the disease beyond known limits, and 
without present power to control, not only in that State, but all 
over the country. Can we, then, be surprised to hear that glan¬ 
ders exists to a large extent in every State and Territory of the 
Union, and kills so many animals? Can we be surprised at read¬ 
ing now and then of the death of a human being? Our sani¬ 
tary veterinary service needs improvement, no doubt. 
“Yes, Smother Them.” —“ Whereas , The animal industry of 
the United States has developed into such magnitude, and is so 
intimately connected with the present and future prosperity of 
our country, the intimate and inseparable connection of the plant 
kingdom thereto demands from our General Government the care 
of a fostering hand; therefore, be it 
“ Resolved, That this Congress , through our Representatives 
and Senators , ask an appropriation sufficient to found and con- 
