GLANDERS IN MAN AND BEAST. 
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arsenic at three to five drops. I have not used anything for 
about three weeks, and feel now well and strong. Now was 
it glanders ? I for one, care not what the verdict. I did not 
feel like awaiting tenor twelve days for development to make 
a scientific and sure diagnosis. The fact that so many die 
from the disease is in a large measure because physicians do 
not know its nature and symptoms, and generally diagnose it 
only when too late, sometimes even after death. They too 
usually think that a glandered man must die anyway. 
Now a word about glanders in animals. Is glanders al¬ 
ways incurable in them? I know now a horse living, which 
three years ago inoculated three mules successively, all of 
which died with glanders. One guinea pig I myself inocula¬ 
ted also developed glanders clearly and died, and the horse 
(a stallion) which was valuable, therefore kept in quarantine, 
has not to-day any discharge from the nose ; the ulcers on the 
septum nasi are healed and have left irregular glossy-white 
cicatrix; the sub-maxillary glands have reduced and are hard 
and painless, and the horse looks perfectly healthy. He has 
been so for over thirteen months. I have in the last year re¬ 
peatedly inoculated various material—very thin as a rule— 
from his nose, and failed always to produce any disease in 
susceptible stock. 
Nor is this an isolated case. I have two similar ones on 
record, and on one of them I made a post mortem ex¬ 
amination in 1887. I found many indurated lymphatics but 
no virus. Found portions of both lungs perfectly solid with 
a deposit of calcareous appearance—a cretefaction which the 
edge of the knife could not incise. I have written enough 
though—much more than I intended to, and I fear that it is 
rather poor literature, as I write in haste. I hope the readers 
of the Review will forgive me this. Owing to my late trou¬ 
ble I am greatly behind in my official work, and am com¬ 
pelled to hurry things along. 
In conclusion I extend my heartfelt thanks to the many 
kind friends in the profession who so feelingly expressed their 
sympathies directly or indirectly to myself, my wife, or my 
mother and her family during our time of trial. 
