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cures and that in a word glanders should not, in man, be con¬ 
sidered always mortal. The article on glanders in Ziemssen’s 
work is based on the authority of nearly fifty writers, among 
whom we find those previously mentioned, plus Greve, 
Kreutzer, Spinola, Gerlock, Bouley, Lafosse and others, 
whose names are well known to medical science. 
In support of this testimony I might add the following 
two positive cases of glanders in man, both of whom are liv¬ 
ing to-day. The first occurred in 1887, in the fall of that 
year. I was called to Burlington Junction, Nodaway Coun¬ 
ty, Missouri, to attend officially to a contagious disease 
among stock. I found eight cases of glanders in four differ¬ 
ent farms, nearly all adjoining. All the cases come from or 
had been contracted at one and the same place originally. 
One of the owners, whose name is Hiram S. Pierce, had 
treated his two diseased horses and had been inoculated 
through a raw sore on the left hand. Virus from his horse’s 
nostrils killed guinea pigs with glanders in five weeks and 
seven weeks respectively. I had the horses killed. Mr. 
Pierce had then been in possession of them only a few weeks, 
if I remember well. He had received them in trade from a 
man who called the disease distemper. He had treated them 
not longer than four weeks, and when I saw him he had had 
symptoms of glanders about fifteen days. The physician he 
consulted did not understand the case and so the patient was 
not much alarmed by the uncertain prognosis. I found in¬ 
duration of lymphatic courses in the affected arm, suppura¬ 
tion of the epitrochlean gland at the elbow and suppuration 
of farcy character at the foot on the same side. The man 
walked to the field with me without a shoe—he could not put 
one on—and limped slightly. His father lived in, and was 
the honorable representative of Logan County, Ill.,—the pa¬ 
pers said. Mr. Pierce went there and was examined and I 
was informed that the virus was tested by Dr. Rouch, Sec¬ 
retary State Board of Health of Illinois. He pronounced 
the case glanders. Then Doctor Leeds, of Lincoln, Ill., /took 
charge of the case, and here is his letter in reply to a recent 
inquiry of mine concerning it. 
