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J. P. KLENCH. 
into a complete marasmus; died January 28, 1885, after an 
illness of about four months. Eight days before death came 
on, I noticed a piece of the skin, of the size of a man’s hand, 
fall off, as by dry gangrene, inside the fetlock of left fore-leg. * 
On post mortem examination I found all viscera sound and 
clean ; only yellow serous infiltration under the skin in those 
places where swellings existed before death. All organs pale, 
very little blood in the body. This was certainly not the 
farcy ; the horse was always kept on the same premises, no 
measures of prevention or disinlection were taken, and never 
any case of glanders and farcy appeared on any of the other 
five horses. 
In January, 1886, I found at the ranch of John Ellis La- 
throp, three mules affected with this mule-lymphangitis, and 
one horse suffering from chronic nasal gleet. One mule, 
bleeding from the nose, was taken out of a plow-team of 
eiojit mules, with the harnesses on. These four animals were 
running loose in the corrall with forty-eight other mules, 
feeding in the same manger, and drinking in the same troughs; 
found blood and mucous discharges on the wagons and fences 
of the corral: in the three watering troughs I noticed dis¬ 
charged matter floating on the surface and some that went 
down to the bottom. These four animals were taken to 
another place and killed three or four weeks later. On open¬ 
ing one of them, I found the lungs perfectly sound, and the 
nasal membrane all rotten. Never had this farmer, to my 
knowledge, another animal affected with this disease before 
or after this time. I will mention that if these animals had 
been glanclered, it would be a surprising wonder that the loss 
at this ranch Avas so small and the contagious virus so weak 
and powerless. 
John Wagener, of Atlanta, who had lost tAvelve mules in 
1883-1884, called on me to examine his stock. I found one 
mule seriously affected, and a buggy-horse which he used to 
drive daily to Stockton until he was refused admission in all 
the stables, because he had an old chronic nasal catarrh ; these 
two were condemned as incurable and shot. But in the field 
I found another horse, working in a team of eight horses, 
