CAN GLANDERS BE PREVENTED BY INOCULATION ? 
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Walley had it ever occurred. In my forthcoming report, as 
also in the Review, will be published an account of a new 
cattle disease, which is a pneumo-enteritis as much as swine 
plague is, and which may also attack other herbivora, but will 
not affect hogs as has been demonstrated by experience and 
experiment. This indicates that we have not got to the bottom 
of this class of diseases, as also the absolute folly of depend¬ 
ing upon inoculations of small animals for diagnostic pur¬ 
poses in this class of diseases, as well as the microscopic 
appearances of their germs, for no man could absolutely dis¬ 
tinguish between the germ of swine plague and the corn-stalk 
disease in cattle, (the disease alluded to) in that way. It looks 
far more as if the disease our French colleague had been 
studying was the much more widely extended “ wild-seuche,” 
which may be also a “pneumo-enteritis/’ than the swine 
plague, and which seems capable of complicating a much 
greater variety of animals than the swine plague, though the 
germs are much alike. 
CAN GLANDERS BE PREVENTED BY INOCULATION? 
By Frank S. Billings, Director of the Patho-Biological Laboratory of the 
State University of Nebraska. 
Living in a State with a “ Live Stock Commission ” which 
has been deservedly termed “ the Glanders Trust ” and where 
during the past two years a bonus has been paid for horses 
diseased with this equine pest in the form of renumeration 
for the most pregnant varieties, while the occult forms have 
been untouched and left to keep up the supply of diseased 
horses in order that the “ Trust ’’ may live, it is but natural that 
this question should have often entered my mind : Can glan¬ 
ders be prevented by inoculation? When we carefully look 
over the evidence, that is the literature which this disease offers, 
it would seem as if everything is so manifestly contradictory 
to such a conclusion that it would be a waste of time to con¬ 
sider it for a moment. 
The cases of reported recovery are so seldom and the evi¬ 
dence so questionable, when taken into consideration with 
