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United States Veterinary Medical Association. We shall be 
pleased to hear the views of our brethren on this subject, and 
shall be happy to appropriate the necessary space in the 
pages of the Review for the publication of the names of sub¬ 
scribers to the fund. And if no one else cares to head the 
list, we shall feel honored in being permitted to do so with 
our own check. 
American Public Health Associations. —By special 
request we call the attention of our friends to the notice 
of the coming meeting of the American Public Health 
Association, which is to be held during the present 
month in Brooklyn. We hope to do better justice to the re¬ 
quest of the chairman, Dr. J. H. Raymond, in our November 
issue; he will, with his usual kindness, excuse us at present 
for reasons we have already stated. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
GLANDERS IN MAN AND BEAST. 
By P. Paquin, M.D., V.S. 
A recent accident in dealing with that disease, and of 
which the Review gave editorially such kindly notices, 
prompts me to write a short article on the subject. I intended 
to do so later, as I am engaged in some slow original re¬ 
searches concerning glanders, but the many conflicting and 
erroneous notices of the press about the accident in question, 
and the apparent confusion that seems to exist in the minds 
even of the most conspicuous of veterinarians and physicians 
about the nature of the disease, have determined me to delay 
no longer at least a few words. 
For reasons without foundation, the popular idea that 
glanders in man must necessarily be fatal seems as prevalent 
among veterinarians as among the laity, so much so that 
some of the leading men have expressed this view in unmis¬ 
takable terms in letters to me and in the press. Does this 
come from the fact that nothing really new has appeared of 
