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late on this subject in veterinary literature, or is it because of 
a sort of lethargy that makes us take for granted the writings, 
sayings and popular notions of old time ? It is, perhaps, well 
in practice to acknowledge the incurability of any disease of 
a deadly character when science and practice point towards 
such a conclusion, but is that a reason why medical men must 
stop and accept for granted this conclusion? What is there 
absolute in disease ? If since the beginning of the world a 
disease was found uncontrollable, is it a reason to stop our 
inquiries and accept views a century old ? Hydrophobia was 
beyond the reach of human skill once ; is it not now mastered ? 
It is a grave error that medical men make when they pro¬ 
nounce a diagnosis of fatality just because the disease under 
treatment is known to the world as incurable. Now I say 
without further comments that glanders in man is sometimes 
curable, and that even in the race of animals most susceptible, 
it occasionally takes a form in which without treatment, con¬ 
tagion becomes impossible at least for a time. I will proceed 
to give evidence. 
Take Ziemssen’s “ Cyclopedia of the Practice of Medi¬ 
cine,” Vol. Ill on chronic and infectious diseases, pages 352 
and 368 (American edition, published by Wm. Wood & Co., 
New York, 1875, edited by Albert H. Buck, M.D.) There 
you will find sufficient evidence I think to convince the most 
skeptical, that glanders is not necessarily deadly. Ziemssen 
there gives the following tabulation written by Bollinger: 
In thirty-eight case of acute glanders in man, recovery en¬ 
sued in one instance. In seven cases of subacute glanders, re¬ 
covery in two instances. In thirty-four cases of chronic glan¬ 
ders recovery in seventeen instances. 
Bollinger assigns an u absolutely unfavorable diagnosis in 
acute glanders only ; the subacute and chronic forms permit¬ 
ting a relatively favorable opinion as to the termination.” 
Out of a total of one hundred and twenty cases of glanders 
in the human subject that he “succeeded in finding,” the re¬ 
coveries were equivalent to twenty-three per cent. In the 
same pages it will be found that Hauff gives account of 1 r.4 
per cent, of recoveries ; that Virchow acknowledges some 
