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But since that time veterinary science has made great 
progress. Bacteriology was unknown in our medicine, and 
in its infancy in human pathology, and no bacillus was ever 
thought of being the true element and constitutional princi¬ 
ple, the living animal, of the glanders. It is to-day admitted 
by all authorities that the glanders cannot exist without the 
presence of this bacillus, which is found only in the glandered 
deposits like abscesses and ulcers. It is also conceded and 
proved by inoculation that the bacillus is the only possible 
element of contagion. 
Let us look now for the favorable conditions for the de¬ 
velopment of the glandered bacillus. It has been proved by 
statistics that the glanders and farcy acquire an extreme de¬ 
gree of extension in moderate climates, and that extreme cold 
and very hot weather destroy the vitality in the bacillus. 
Hence it is possible that the fluids within or without infected 
stables may provide suitable media for the bacteria to retain 
their vitality outside of the animal organism. According to 
Krabbe, there occurred in 10,000 horses in Norway, from 
1857 to 1873, six cases of glanders yearly ; in Denmark, 85 ; in 
Great Britain, 14; in Sweden, 57; in Prussia, 78; in Belgium, 
138 ; in the French Army, 1,130; in the Algerian Army, 1,848, 
which show that glanders increases in frequency as we go 
from a northern to a southern climate. (Am. Vet. Review, 
June, 1887). Now, as the climate of California is similar to 
that of Southern France and Algeria, and as the manner in 
which the police laws are executed here in California is less 
strict than in the European countries, we can affirm that the 
glandered virus finds a suitable place in our State to retain 
its complete vitality wherever it is produced, like barn floors, 
barn yards, manure, straw stacks, pools of putrid water and 
even pastures, and no rough winter will ever come to destroy 
the same. The glanders and farcy have been reported as 
causing very great ravages amongst the equine species in 
almost every county in California, and thousands of horses 
and mules have been destroyed as victims of this contagious 
disease within a few years. When I consider the great re¬ 
sisting vitality of the glandered bacillus, I am led to believe 
