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losis is as common amongst cattle and hogs here as in other 
States, and that consumption amongst people is as frequent¬ 
ly originated in California as elsewhere. Besides, no differ¬ 
ence has been noticed for this climate, either in the symp¬ 
toms or in the metastatic deposits. 
I can affirm most positively to have seen and condemned 
for having the glanders, several horses with all the capital 
symptoms of the chronic type, having an indurated gland and 
miliary tubercles. It is also very important to mention the 
peculiar circumstance, that this disease was never found to 
break out on those ranches where only horses are raised and 
kept, especially when these horses were of good breed ; while 
it attacked in every case such farms where we find working- 
horses and mules together, or mules only. I have yet to learn 
of a well bred horse falling a victim to this affection. 
To resume, if we conclude to admit this to be the acute 
glanders and farcy, (or the sub-acute type), we must accept 
that the glandered poison has lost its intensity and that its 
effects remain external and never form any metastatic depos¬ 
its ; that there is no contagion, but only infection ; and finally, 
that the disease is spontaneously developed and not the pro¬ 
ducts of contagion. 
Ergo. The old theories, advocated by the greatest veter¬ 
inary authorities of all nations, about the nature of glanders, 
are declared false and without foundation—for California. 
I am convinced that the affection is located in the lymphat¬ 
ic system, and consists either in a certain modification of the 
lymphatic fluid or in an inflammation of the vessels. I always 
had, and still have to-day, a great doubt as to the inflamma¬ 
tory character of this disease, for I never could notice any 
great modification in the anatomical structure of the ganglion 
and vessels, that would be proportioned to the vast extension 
of the disease over the whole body and for a long time. 
I do not believe in the presence of any microbic element 
in the nourishing fluids, nor in any modification in the chemi¬ 
cal or physical elements of the blood, nor in any disturbance 
in the physiological functions of any organ or system of or¬ 
gans as connected with the primitive origin of this disease, 
until reliable proofs appear to advance a different opinion. 
